When we began our work on VB Migration Partner, we were aware that we had to make our product much better than the Upgrade Wizard and other conversion tools on the market, and that we had to backup our product with first-class, knowledgeable, and swift tech support. We are delighted that our customers realize that our approach makes a big difference.

Here is the abridged version of a blog post by Jugo Arsovski, a VB.NET consultant who used the Upgrade Wizard and then our VB Migration Partner to migrate an VB6 application by one of his customers. (Boldface is mine.)

I started Visual Basic 2005 Upgrade Wizard and after few steps I had converted .NET application. Oh my god! It was the worst converted code I’ve ever seen in my life. I ended up with zillion errors and warnings. It was practically useless code. I really had no idea where to start from. Almost every line in the project was underlined with red or green. I spent about 5 hours just trying to clean it up so I could understand some errors better. With that 5 hours I spent I only got about 1/1000 way through it so that should say how bad it was.[...]

I installed the VB Migration Partner on my computer and then ran the application. You wouldn’t believe that I was used to the GUI after only two or three minutes. It was love on first sight. lol

I have not spent a single minute on reading the help files. It is so simple to use that it is an absolute delight to work with. Actually all I had to do was to open VB6 project and then to click the "Convert to .NET" toolbar button (F5). Yes it was that simple. Only two steps and I had the VB6 application converted.

I ended up with only 65 errors and 17 warnings. I believe it's worth mentioning that this is nontrivial project, involving thousands of executable lines, a lot of methods, classes, DLL's etc. I am telling you this so you clearly understand that the initial 65 errors are relatively few, and seeing that was a real revelation to me. If i judge by the time it took to convert this application then this tool is certainly for all kind of migrations, beginning with the small and progressing to the huge ones (even those with millions executable lines). [...]

All the errors were related to certain interface but, honestly, i didn't know how to handle it. That’s why I contacted the VB Migration Support. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by their efficiency and quick response. Actually this is very interesting part. To my great satisfaction I was privileged to communicate with Mr. Francesco Balena. [...]  

Isn't it brilliant that the author also leads the tech support team? No doubt this gentleman knows very well, that support is so essential in overcoming the initial dismay for automatic conversion tools. He contacted me the next day after I sent him an email and answered a ton of questions including the most important one, how to fix the remaining 65 errors.

As you can guess I was able to fix all the errors in the next ten minutes after Francesco's answer and finally compile the VB.NET project. Yep! It worked like a charm

I clearly remember when Jago contacted our tech support. He asked several tough questions, so I decided to reply personally. He was having a problem with a 3rd-party GIS type library which exists in both COM and .NET versions. One of the interfaces in the COM version had to be mapped to the corresponding base class in the .NET version. He solved his problem by simply adding a PostProcess pragma to the original VB6 code.

Producing only 65 compile errors in a large project is a great accomplishment by itself, but the ability to eliminate most of these compilation errors with just one pragma tells even more about VB Migration Partner power.

In case you didn't notice, however, the most interesting part of this story is the very last sentence:  It worked like a charm. Cool

It confirms that converted VB.NET apps often works fine at the first run once you eliminate the (relatively few) compilation errors. This is only one of the 17 advantages of VB Migration Partner's support library