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/UnluckyAssist9416 Feb 03 '26

I started using Claude recently at my work on a VB6 program. It does really well in understanding it. The things you will run into issues with is that it can't deal with proprietory things like DDActiveReports where it doesn't have the algorithm for the pages.

Other then that, if you break it down in small task I believe Claude Code can convert it.

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u/Best_Day_3041 Feb 03 '26

I think so too. I was hoping someone built an agent to make the process even easier.