VB.NET to C# conversion

[ASB]

Before I JFGI I have some VB.NET and this wants converting to C#. Has anybody any experiences good (preferably) of any of the various automatic converters? Suggestion will at least give me ones to review first.

Bad ones of course also welcome. I'll know not to bother persuing those.

[AtW]

I've written my own in around a few days and it did 90% of the job - commercial tools are far more advanced and should give very good conversions since both languages map so well and all variable names can be kept.

Basically Google for it and try the first one that ranks, if not good enough go for second - that's will give you result much quicker than asking on a public forum.

[ASB]

I've written my own in around a few days and it did 90% of the job - commercial tools are far more advanced and should give very good conversions since both languages map so well and all variable names can be kept.

Basically Google for it and try the first one that ranks, if not good enough go for second - that's will give you result much quicker than asking on a public forum.

Cheers, I'm not in a rush though :-)

I shall JFGI. The panacea would be give it a VB project and out pops a C# one. Somehow I doubt I'll get that for free though!!

[doodab]

I'd imagine there are some free / open source ones that will do the job. I'd start here: { End Bracket }: C# to Visual Basic Translation Tool

.Net has something called the CodeDom that is a language independent representation of code that can be created from and translated back into source. Have a look at System.CodeDom, Microsoft.CSharp, Microsoft.VisualBasic etc. It's not that hard to roll your own for simple stuff, I wanted something along the lines of the beanshell / bsh scripting components for c# and I literally got something working in an afternoon that would take either VB.net or C# "scriptlets", turn them into a class implementing a single invokable method and output C# source. Considering I had ~3 months .Net experience at the time I expect someone who knew their stuff could do something pretty cool.

[AtW]

Somehow I doubt I'll get that for free though!!

Are you doing this job for free? Conversion software can be worth a fraction compared to saved billable time that will be needed to do very dull job.

Be grateful you are not doing C# to VB.NET...