Is there a way to migrate Delphi 2010 forms into Delphi Prism (.Net ) XE forms?

Question

I know that since "native" delphi and delphi.net are different technologies it is unlikely to produce a tool that can migrate your old dfm forms to win forms for delphi prism. However is there a tool that facilitate such migration? Basically I have a "native" delphi project that I want to migrate to delphi .net, it is a desktop application, how do I go about that?

Dulosis

Answer 1

VCL and Winforms are enough different to make such conversion not easy. There are also some components that are Delphi specific without a direct .NET counterpart, and a conversion tool probably would fail if unsupported third party controls are used. The old VCL.NET framework was an attempt to make that transition easier, but failed. A conversion tool may be written, but IMHO it would be of limited use and work for simple forms only. There's no one I am aware of, and because most developers that migrated from Delphi to .NET went the VS/C# way - I see very little advantages of moving a desktop application from Delphi to Prism - there are very little reasons to write one.

Hootenanny

This is very good input as my thinking was to migrate to prism and then to c#. I hoped that this two step migration could be easier as decompiling project to c# and then fixing it up so it works, while not super easy but definitely easier than manual re-write. Now it appears that this was not that good idea to begin with. Thank you. – Dulosis

Answer 2

The only tool wich i know to port Delphi Win32 and Delphi .Net Code to Delphi-Prism is Oxidizer, but this app does not translate the Delphi forms to Winforms, Oxydizer is good for converting library code and other non-visual related code, however it is still a great option to help you to translate your Delphi code.

you can found more info in this link

Simonize

Thank you for your comment. It's the forms that worry me most at the moment, though. – Dulosis