HealthMEDX used gmStudio in support of its project to upgrade its Vision product to ASP.NET/VB.NET. A large ASP/VB6/COM legacy application, this system consists of over 2,000 ASP pages, totaling over 1 Million lines of unique ASP code (LOC), plus a collection of 70 interrelated VB6/COM components totaling about 700,000 unique VB6 LOC.
In a nine-month effort (a three-month Proof of Concept followed by a six month implementation) Great Migrations assisted HealthMEDX in rewriting Vision to VB.NET and in reengineering it for the .NET Framework. Using gmStudio, we designed and built a migration solution that automates the rewriting of the entire application (both VB6 and ASP parts) as reengineered VB.NET code. Some of the technical highlights of this solution are as follows:
- Rewrite the site ASPX pages with VB.NET code-behind which is organized in a large .NET web application project
- Rewrite 400 #include files into web user controls with code-behind, as appropriate
- Replace COM references with .NET components, including replacing ADODB-based data access calls with calls to a custom ADO.NET-based data access framework developed by HealthMEDX
- Rework Win32 dependencies to use .NET framework classes
- Rewrite 250K LOC of client-side VBScript as client-side Javascript
- Rework BAS modules in the VB6 DLLs to be compatible with ASP.NET state conventions
- Rework VB6 code file sharing to use file linking in .NET
- Generate “from scratch” the entire .NET site with gmStudio in under 15 minutes – thus making it possible to apply the solution to a changing codebase and to iteratively implement corrections and to experiment with design changes and optimizations throughout the course of the project.
HealthMEDX
5100 N. Towne Centre Drive
Ozark MO 65721