What’s New in Version 3.00
Released 7/28/2012
Current registered users: This program will install unlocked and not overwrite your previous installation.
For trial users: There is a 15 day trial period, 2000 line limitation per project converted.
New Features:
- 2,000 Lines of Code Supported in the Trial Version
To allow more complete evaluation prior to purchase, the new trial version supports a maximum of 2,000 lines of code per project, instead of the previous 1,100 line limitation.
- Full Visual Studio 2012 support, including support for the new Await and Async keywords!
- Snippet Converter
You can now convert VB.Net and ASP.Net snippets without having to convert a full project, using a Visual Studio like editor.
- Edit VB.Net and C# Code Directly in the Converter
VB.Net and C# code can be directly edited in the converter, without having to find the corresponding lines in Visual Studio. This is very useful when working a list of issues which have straightforward fixes, and navigating between the converter’s problems/notes/errors and their corresponding positions in the Visual Studio project can be tedious.
A Visual Studio like editor is provided, complete with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and undo/redo.
- Easily Find and Open Most Recently Converted Projects
- Mark Items as “Worked”
A potential problem, conversion note, or compiler error can now be marked as “worked”. This is useful when working a list of items to correct and you want to keep track of which have been fixed.
Accuracy improvements:
In spite of the more visible changes, most of the focus of version 3.00 has been on conversion accuracy. There are too many to list, but some of the improvements are:
- Multiple accuracy improvements in VS 2008 and 2010 projects
- Improved accuracy in automatically detecting the Visual Studio version of a project.
- Fixed problem converting custom events.
- Fixed error converting events in interfaces which have attributes.
- Corrected error where mismatched casing in namespace lines wasn’t being detected.
- Improved accuracy of detecting whether to convert a VB.Net “=” to a C# “=” or “==”.
- Fixed error converting some dllimport functions.
- Fixed mismatched casing detection in labels / goto statements (prevent CS0159 errors).
- Cleaner conversion of ByRef arguments.
- Improved Case statement conversions.
- Fixed CLSCompliance issues (CS3008, CS3009 errors)
- Corrected errors converting iif statements which contained a type conversion.
- Fixed problem with autoimplemented properties in VB2010.
- Corrected error when converting a For Each loop control variable of me.variableName.
- Fixed error converting some methods which implemented interface methods.
- Corrected problem converting identifiers where the non-first term ended in a special character, such as $.
- Improved handling of CS0171, CS0571, and CS1620 C# compiler errors.
- Plus many more…
The Conversion Test – Over 1000 New Projects Added
This release was tested on 8,156 projects, containing over 5 million lines of VB.Net code. All projects converted without C# compiler errors.
