Converting QBASIC to Visual Basic

[tbellomo]

Hello,
Is there any utility that will help me convert an old quickbasic program to visual basic. The program was made for my company before i got here, and now my boss wants to expand its capabilities and make it easier to use. I'm pretty skilled in VBA, but is there anything to make this conversion simpler?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[meldrape]

I am working on this type of conversion myself. I'm converting a large Thoroughbred database to SQL. It's tedious, but I took the file layouts, created tables and did a datadump to a delimited text file and put the data into the tables. It takes forever but I don't know a better way. If you figure out something let me know. I'll do the same.

 

[BruceG]

As meldrape implies, this kind of thing is pretty much a manual effort. Many "core" BASIC elements (such as string functions, math statements, file manipulation statements, etc.) will work the same, but other than that, you'll need to create new code in VB to simulate the functionality of the QB program. If you have any specific questions related to the project, post here and I'll try to address them.