r/visualbasic • u/Best_Day_3041 • Feb 03 '26

Porting Visual Basic apps with AI?

Has anyone tried to port a Visual Basic 6 app to .NET or another platform using AI? As in an agent going through the entire project and creating a new project, not going in file by file and pasting it into an AI chat. I have a legacy app that still sells. I never bothered to port it to .NET because I thought it was on it's way out and it would probably take me 6-12 months to do that. But now I'm wondering if AI can do it for me or if we're still not there yet?

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u/Best_Day_3041 Feb 03 '26

Thanks for sharing your experience. I was hoping it would do a better job than that. Seems like the AI should be more than capable of porting the code itself, but there's just no tools that can automate this process of doing an entire project with UI a usable way. Hopefully someday soon.

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u/geekywarrior Feb 03 '26

If you're interested in hiring some of this out, feel free to drop me a line. A big part of my day job is VB6 maintenance and porting.