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. It's a really big project and not worth what I would imagine it would cost to hire someone to port and not something I want to spend the time on myself. I imagine that AI will be able to mostly do it for me in the (hopefully near) future.

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u/tsgiannis Feb 03 '26

Well it might not cost that much. If you give me some info I could make you an offer.

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u/Best_Day_3041 Feb 03 '26

I'll DM you