upgrade program for converting vb6 app to C#

Question

What is the best pathway to achieve this?

I know that VS2005 contains an upgrade mechanism. Do any later versions of VS contain this?

Answer 1

One way to do this, which was used successfully in one of my previous teams, is:-

1. use the free Microsoft tools for upgrading from VB6 to VB.NET (e.g. http://msdn.microsoft.com/sv-se/vbrun/ms788233)
2. compile the resulting code into assemblies
3. decompile the assemblies into C# using a tool such as .NET Reflector, ILSpy, etc.
4. cover the code in unit tests
5. refactor until the code is managable (the initial code is likely to be quite ugly)