Application modernization has been a priority for some enterprises for a decade or more, but recent developments in cloud computing, functional programming and microservice-based applications have opened new practices for consideration. This creates even greater pressure on development managers to make changes to bring their apps up to date. .NET can be a perfect avenue for app mod, and there are five tools that can make it even better.
Any user who has seriously reviewed app mod options realizes that the most significant .NET framework feature is the widespread availability of app mod tools that translate applications to a .NET or hybrid web-and-.NET form. These tools typically aim at three areas: substitution of modern web-enabled GUIs for “green screen” legacy terminal formats, rehosting of critical components as back-end services and translation of programs from a legacy language to something more modern. Just be sure that the tool will support the latest version of .NET (particularly ASP.NET) and that language translation provided will utilize the features of the latest version (C# version 7, for example).
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