We provide a complete suite of White Papers and Case Studies.
A prominent Maritime industry services company, specializing in the transportation of large-volume liquids, chemicals, and petroleum, as well as providing ship assistance, sought to modernize its 20-year-old in-house Visual FoxPro application using both VFP DB and SQL Server to modern .NET architecture.
A financial services company, specializing in equity and fixed income trading, investment banking, and research, sought to modernize its 25-year-old in-house developed Visual FoxPro (VFP) application used for risk management and reporting.
The successful modernization of the FoxPro 2.6 application to a contemporary platform using C# .NET, Angular, and SQL Server exemplifies Macrosoft's expertise in legacy migrations and strategic planning.
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a Java-based web application framework that simplifies the development of user interfaces for Java EE applications. The best modern technology to migrate JSF applications to is React.js. React is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, known for its performance, flexibility, and extensive community support.
This whitepaper delves into the critical insights, offering a comprehensive guide for organizations on the best practices for migrating back-end databases from VFP to a robust and secure platform like SQL Server.
Macrosoft and the client collaborated on multiple demos and discussions to finalize UI design decisions. Despite some differences between the legacy application and the new web UI, Macrosoft ensured the new system remained efficient and user-friendly.
Case Study of Migrating a Comprehensive Visual Basic 6 (VB6) Scheduling Application to .NET C# and Angular for a top Casino and Restaurant chain
The migration project successfully transitioned the client’s 25-year-old Visual FoxPro application to modern technologies while preserving critical business rules and workflows.
A prominent financial institution faced limitations with their 30-year-old invoicing application built on Visual FoxPro (VFP) technology. This case study delves deeper into the complexities of the project, highlighting the collaborative efforts undertaken by both Macrosoft and the client's team, ultimately leading to a successful outcome.
This whitepaper establishes the pressing need for organizations to migrate from VFP to modern platforms. It analyzes the limitations of continued VFP usage and the associated business risks.
Download the full VFP Trends & Best Practices survey report here and gain access to the interactive reporting portal
Cloud is becoming an increasingly popular choice for businesses of all sizes, offering numerous benefits such as increased accessibility, scalability, and security. By moving your desktop applications to the cloud, you can take advantage of these benefits, helping to improve your operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
VBMorph is a Macrosoft’s propriety tool that converts Visual Basic code into the web-based ASP.NET MVC framework in C# language.
In considering virtualizing a VFP application, there are several major issues you need to consider and address. We discuss these, along with describing a long list of the common issues involved in setting up a virtual VFP application.
Macrosoft conducted the second Industry best practices of VFP – Survey in the month of April 2022 using Survey Monkey with 19 multiple choice questions.
Download the Survey Report on the industry trends and best practices among VB6 and Classic ASP users around the globe. This survey was participated by over 500 users from 400+ companies still using VB6 or Classic ASP.
Macrosoft is proud to announce the launch of latest version of Dazzle 3.0. DAZZLE is our custom-built .Net Foundation Framework
Macrosoft conducted a Visual FoxPro best practices survey during March 2021. Download the Survey Report and get access to the Interactive Reporting Portal also.
If you are looking to use Microsoft technologies to develop new desktop based applications, you have 2 choices Windows Forms (WinForms): WinForms serve as a strong platform to write rich client applications with a graphical class…
Whether to migrate your current Visual FoxPro application to a modern platform or not is a challenging question for most corporations. There are various organizational factors that come at play when making a big decision like this. Generally…
Over the past 6-months, we have devised an exciting new way to perform VFP migrations using an ‘agile-like’ approach, with elements similar to the agile approach used for normal development projects. We are excited to report on this…
Do you believe that VFP conversion project leaves the company with a warmed-over version of their existing system…so then why do it? For most companies, maintaining the existing functionality of their old system is important. If you are…
Thinking the time has finally come to convert your Visual FoxPro (VFP) application to a new modern platform, say C#.NET? We recommend you consider doing a complete analysis first. Analysis of the current application gives you…
Though every migration is unique and we like to say we do one migration at a time, we have found the reasons we are typically contacted fall into one of four buckets. Need for Enhanced Security, Need for Modern Web-based Application…
As a recent innovation, rather than converting the existing reports, we build a reporting database, updated directly from the transaction data-store. Streamline Database Tables, Improved Access Speed and User Experience, Significant…
Worried about your company’s future running on a VFP application. Looking for smart automation tools that reduce the overall effort estimate and timeline for replacing with a latest technology. We proudly present you three smart…
Last year was the year of opportunities for Macrosoft as we converted several ultra-large and tightly integrated VFP legacy applications. This motivated us to devise 3 unique and practical migration strategies.
Macrosoft has years of proven experience in migrating modest sized to very large VFP legacy applications. This have helped us to device our own indigenous tools that reduces the conversion costs and timelines for migration projects…
We strongly recommend our clients who are looking to migrate their VFP application to .NET, to build a working proof-of-concept immediately after the analysis phase is complete.
Creating automated test cases in VFP conversion projects is an important factor that should not be overlooked. In fact, Macrosoft has always embraced and put into practice the creation of automated test cases for new applications.
Application rationalization is less resource intensive when compared to a detailed analysis, thus helping client’s lower conversion costs. Using our proprietary automation tools we can quickly complete the application rationalization process in a short duration for a typical sized application.
One of the main issues confronted by our customers is having multiple versions of the same basic application running for different clients. While rebuilding the new application we recommend our clients to design their core application using only ‘best practices’ from the industry in which they operate.
Dazzle framework reduces time, avoids refactoring, generates a single coding standard, and provides for reusability of the code. We have incorporated major enhancements into Dazzle 2.0 which embodies a modern architectural framework, and strong building blocks (classes) that provide for a solid foundation.
In any VFP to .NET conversion, we will always need to replace the VFP database with a new database, usually Microsoft SQL Server. One question we are often asked is to compare features, and strengths and weaknesses of the VFP database with a new MS SQL Server database. This presentation compares the two – VFP Database and MS SQL Server based on 10 points:
In this technical note, we describe Macrosoft’s new testing approach for converting/modernizing HIPPA-compliant legacy applications. We believe this approach provides a VERY EFFECTIVE method to final testing of a HIPPA-compliant application without ever jeopardizing patient data to any exposure risk.
Data Morph is a new tool that allows our clients to migrate, their VFP Database directly into a SQL Server Database, via a fully automated visual process.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all European Union (EU) individuals and companies selling goods or services to EU.
One of the thorniest challenges we face in our VFP conversion work is building and implementing a complete testing environment for the new application.
The key point of this paper – we lay out about a dozen items that can make a very significant impact on your older enterprise application.
Macrosoft is proud and excited to introduce our newest and most important automation tool for use in VFP Code Conversions: CodeMORPH 1.0.
This is Macrosoft’s FULL adoption of the DevOps Continuous Integration (CI) and Deployment (CD) Framework as a key component of our VFP conversion methodology.
Your mission critical applications in Clipper or xBase which were designed for DOS will have difficulties working on the new and advanced Windows platform, and couldn’t leverage the technology advancement. Completely re-writing the…
Macrosoft helps you to migrate Visual FoxPro applications seamlessly right from documenting the existing system, requirements analysis, platform selection, design, development and deployment. Increased Agility, Increased…
As Microsoft announced the end of support for VB6 development, companies face challenge of moving the current application to an updated platform. VB6 migration requires significant effort from the developers to port it to the .NET…
Applications built with ASP.NET bring better performance, scalability and reliability. Your current ASP web applications on your hardware, even after migration to .NET will of course continue to function. Converting web applications from…
Macrosoft migration team having successfully supported clients across multiple verticals have developed a proven 5-step migration methodology for successful .NET migrations. Our methodology combines industry best practices, Agile…
Don’t be left behind. Evolve to the application of the future. Download our migration brochure to understand the proven methodologies to safely migrate your business application for the modern world.
An industry leader in the Promotional Products business faced challenges in their live websites built in Classic ASP and VBScript which limited their ability in work distribution, web analytics and user information security. They engaged…
An industry leader in providing stack monitoring systems in United States, had their proprietary, mission critical applications originally developed using Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, which Microsoft stopped supporting. In 2014…
A leading European financial institution specialized in Asset Management and Private Banking services relied on a highly complex and specialized Visual FoxPro (VFP) based Financial Management software that was evolved from Clipper in…
Macrosoft migrated a legacy VFP application for a New York based industrial water hygiene chemical feed and control equipment provider. Client had four primary Visual FoxPro (VFP) business applications and old VFP database for their…