"Working with Tangible Software
Solutions has
been far and away the best experience I've ever had with a software
vendor. I'm completely blown away by both the quality of Instant C#,
and the responsiveness of your support team. I threw thousands of
lines of code at the tool, and was amazed at how it successfully
converted many of the most complex constructs. Perhaps more
importantly, it handled its limitations intelligently, leaving the
source code in tact and inserting helpful comments, allowing me to
manually complete the remaining tasks with minimal effort and a very
high degree of confidence.
I compared Instant C# with other
conversion tools, and not only is it head-and-shoulders above the
rest in functionality, but you also clearly have a support and
development team that is passionate about what you do, and was
willing to go way above and beyond my expectations to enhance the
tool to meet our needs. Virtually every suggestion I made for
improvement was implemented and made available within days, or even
hours, and the fact that you were able to do this without breaking
any existing functionality indicates to me that you have built
quality into your software architecture from the ground up.
Working
with you felt like a partnership, and I found myself excitedly
checking my email each day looking for the latest updates! The final
version is truly phenomenal. You have eliminated virtually all the
manual work, so that converting our entire codebase will be almost
completely painless. Thank you!"
– Jeremy Bull, Principal Software Engineer
GE Healthcare
"At
STI, we were looking for a conversion tool that accurately and
efficiently could be used to migrate VB.NET to C# code and
discovered Instant C# at an IT forum. After reviewing some of the
stated features, we decided to purchase the tool and to put it to a
major test. The initial results exceeded our expectations. While
working with the tool, we discovered some issues in need of
attention which was forwarded to Instant C# Support and again we
were pleasantly surprised over the vendor’s effectiveness and speed
in upgrading the software and releasing new builds. Instant C# is a
powerful tool that has proven to be a great time saver for our
Company."
– Krishna kumar Natarajan, Lead Architect
Solution Technology International, Inc.
"We were required to convert
vendor supplied code from C# to VB in order to meet our clients’
internal software standards. The team was newly trained in VB.NET
and knew nothing about C#. After investigating various web and
client translators, Instant VB from Tangible Software Solutions
won hands-down. Its speed, ease of use, and accuracy (it even
offers suggestions if it can't directly translate complex code)
was greater than its competitors. Technical Support was
responsive through email and phone when we were in the product
evaluation phase of the product and this level of support carried
through to the development of our project. In short: If you’re
converting from C# to VB.NET, Instant VB IS the tool for your
project."
– Mark Worden, Software Engineer
Accenture
"I have found Tangible's C++
to VB a real time saver. As a small firm we don't have lots of
programmers who know lots of languages so we center on VB. Yet
many code examples come to us in C++. Tangible's product
flawlessly translates the C++ to VB for us to get a jump start on
new projects and improvements for our customers. It lets us
surprise our customers by delivering before a promised due date.
Many thanks to the Chefs at Tangible."
– Brooke Aker, CEO
Acuity Software
"I
use both Instant C++ (C# Edition) and Instant C++ (VB Edition) for
converting snippets from books, the web, MSDN, help documentation,
etc. but for this purpose the products have proved invaluable
already and were money well spent. I have yet to find a piece
of code it hasn't converted for me."
– Steve Marsden, Director
Conquest Ltd.
"I
tried a bunch of different stuff, and Instant VB is the only thing
I've found so far that really works. Most conversion
processes are fairly straightforward and some of the free tools
work ok, but there are enough interesting details that can cause
loss of fidelity and a lot of wasted time fixing things by hand.
Sure, you can compile the source and reverse engineer it with
Reflector, but you lose all your variable names and often get
weird control flow interpretations. That all requires
significant manual rework too. The demo is free. What
do you have to lose?"
– Joe Kaplan
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services
Programming"
"Wow, I am stupefied!!! Thank you very much. Your excellent
support has me totally amazed. I am especially in awe of you (and
your peers) for your commitment to customer satisfaction. Instant C# has now become an indispensable component of my
developer tool-kit. The tool works great."
- – Nik Kalyani, CEO
- Speerio, Inc.
"Instant
VB
has saved me countless hours in converting C# code to Visual
Basic. While developing software for my infrastructure in support
of my company to sell software to raise funds for prostate cancer
research, I often look to the development community for code
snippets or even modules that can help me accomplish a given task.
Many times this code is only available in C# which I would like to
convert to VB so that I can understand the code better.
Instant
VB
has
performed extremely well for me. I have over 35 years of
experience in software development and I think I know a good
product when I see one.
Instant
VB
is one."
– Ron Clarke
DGC Solutions
"One of the services we offer at
Penderdene Business Solutions is to help rescue IT projects that
have drifted from their original goals. We work for a number of
multi-site and multi-national companies, and typically we come
across single projects built using a variety of different
languages and technologies. One of our first jobs is to
rationalize everything, where possible, to a single language. We
do this in order to streamline support requirements and to
maximize the productivity of all the staff working on the project.
A typical combination is to find projects where some of the code
is written in VB and some in C#. The projects can be quite large
and converting from one language to another is not as
straightforward as one might be led to believe. We evaluated a
number of tools which claim to be able to convert from VB to C#
and the difference in capabilities is quite alarming.
Instant C# stood head and
shoulders above the rest. The speed and accuracy of the
conversion alone was very impressive. More so, however, was the
implementation of advanced code optimization techniques which we
simply did not expect to see in a tool of this type. For example,
Instant C# was able to detect where a variable was only being used
in a For ... Next loop and declared it locally in its C#
equivalent. New comments were inserted by Instant C# so that we
could see exactly what was going on.
After we had purchased
Instant C#, we came across a bug when it was trying to convert
a particularly badly written piece of VB code. We sent the
offending code fragment to Tangible Software Solutions and were
happy to receive an acknowledgement of the problem within minutes.
We were delighted and surprised, however, to receive a fix that
same afternoon.
We simply have to recommend
Tangible Software Solutions based on the quality of the product
and the exceptional technical support which is often lacking in
such tool providers. Instant C# is a first class product that has
saved us and our clients hundreds of hours of work. If you are
looking for a conversion tool, you really need look no further!"
– Paul Miller, Managing Director
Penderdene Business Solutions
"Instant VB
is an excellent product that has already saved us weeks of work and
paid for itself in the first day."
– Timm Martin, President/CTO
Mini-Tools
"I converted a production application for my
client, a highly successful software vendor in the petroleum
industry. Instant VB performed very well for this task.
None of the other tools I've seen even come close. In
particular, the free translation tools are toys that merely cover
the obvious syntax. There's a great deal more you have to do
to successfully translate production code, and Instant VB does it.
Tangible Software Solutions have clearly invested a lot of
development effort to accomplish this (and acquired deep expertise
in the process).
The other thing that has made this tool so
valuable is the quick and friendly support I have received.
It's impossible to cover everything in advance; though C# and
VB.NET are closely related, any complex conversion is going to
unearth a few arcane incompatibilities, and ours was no exception.
But every stumbling block we encountered was met with a quick
response and if necessary a new build, often in the same day.
Without that exceptional level of support, our project wouldn't
have gone nearly as smoothly."
– Daniel Gackle, Software Developer
NewLevel Solutions
"I
found Instant C# while doing searches on the web to find out what VB
to C# converters were available. After looking at your site and
visiting several others I choose Instant C# for several reasons:
-
Tangible Software Solutions
appeared to be a "real company" as opposed to someone working out of
their garage. That implied that if we had a problem we could get
reliable and timely tech support.
-
When navigating your website I
found a page which showed that your most recent build of Instant C#
was only about 5 days old on the day I was doing my research -- I
found this to be impressive. It meant that you were constantly
improving your product.
-
I downloaded the Demo version and
found it easy to use and very quick to convert code.
-
I visited many discussion boards on
the topic of converting VB to C# and without exception your product
was a) the most mentioned and b) the most praised for ease of use
and tech support response."
– Stephan Roth, Senior Software Developer
Chatham Financial
"Instant
VB was a real life saver! We had a project that was nearly
complete, but written in C#. The client insisted on having the code
in VB.Net. After stressing about how long the conversion was going
to take, I searched Google for C# to VB.Net converters and yours was
a “Sponsored Link” at the top of the list. I downloaded the trial
version, tested it on some small files and was pleased with the
results. I was stunned when I ran it on our 250 file web project
and it ran in about a minute! After reviewing the notes and
manually changing the 2 or 3 pieces of code that couldn’t be
converted automatically, I was able to successfully build and run
the project. Overall, the entire conversion process took about 30
minutes rather than days! Thanks for developing such a helpful
tool."
– Michael Sanders, Architect
CodeMavens
"Our
software company, Cox, Smith & Associates, Inc., recently switched
from VB.NET to C# and had an application with about 34,000 lines of
code that needed to be converted to C#. Instant C# converted the
entire project in about 5 minutes. I was very surprised and
impressed with the results. There is no telling how many days or
weeks it would have taken to do this manually. Thanks for a great
product!"
– George Cox, Developer
Cox, Smith & Associates, Inc.
"We
tried several C# to VB.NET free converters before buying Instant VB,
and the results perfectly met our expectations! Instant VB is not
only able to translate C# code to VB.NET, but the resulting
converted project is a new, ready-to-use, VB.NET project. We
found some conversions problem in a very complex C# project, and the
guys at Tangible Software Solutions immediately worked to solve all
the issues. Tangible’s Technical Support always responded to our
support emails within a few hours and instantly released new builds
of their product meeting our requirements! Technical Support from
Tangible Software Solutions is extremely fast, precise,
collaborative, reliable and courteous. It's a pleasure to work with
Tangible Software Solutions!"
–
Antonella DM, Development Team Software Engineer
Naxos Development (Italy)
"Instant J# is an
effective code converting utility that teachers will value as a
quick and easy way to make use of their favorite Visual Basic
programs and examples in their J# classes. A real time saver!"
– Pat Phillips, Editor-in-Chief
"My company Object Innovations develops
courseware teaching modern programming technologies such as .NET,
Java and XML. Thus I develop a great many example programs in C#
and VB.NET. I used to convert them manually, but now with Instant
VB, I develop only the C# version, and truly "instantly" get the
corresponding VB.NET program. I purchased the complete product,
and some of the projects exceed 500 lines, and the product worked
perfectly in accomplishing the conversions. I've used Instant C#
as well with equal success. While I was evaluating the products I
had occasion to contact technical support and was impressed with
their responsiveness."
– Bob Oberg, President
Object Innovations
"I recently downloaded a trial version of
Instant C#, as I need to convert a large application from VB.NET
to C#. Having already tried another product and given up on it,
I was immediately impressed with Instant C#. I found that I
did not
convert whole projects
at a time, but I did
convert large snippets of code and Instant C# does a great job
of that with its snippet conversion window. I would highly
recommend Instant C# to anyone with any volume of code to
convert or rewrite. Since I am a developer of Developer Tools
myself, I expect tools to do what they are advertised to do and
Instant C# does just that."
– Les Smith
Partner at KnowDotNet.com
Developer of NetRefactor, NetCommander, CSharpCompleterPlus,
VBCommander, VBXref
"We used Instant VB to convert a large C#
project (500+ modules) to VB.NET. The quality of the converted
code was very good and we simply could not have achieved a
successful conversion without Instant VB.
The
Tangible Software Solutions support staff was very responsive to a
few problems we encountered and always evidenced a great
willingness to help."
– Tom Kopcik, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT
Software Engineer/Trainer
Pineland Technology Solutions, Inc.
"Instant C# surpasses all expectations,
converting any VB.NET code that is thrown at it quickly and
dependably. When making the transition from VB to C# as my
primary development language, Instant C# served as a great
learning tool. Now it is a tremendous time saver, enabling me to
convert my older VB.NET code to C# in no time at all. Instant C#
seems to be able to process any code, including complex Interop
declarations. I highly recommend this software."
– Scott Waletzko, President
Skystone Software
"We have
converted more than 500,000 lines of code in less than a week
using Instant C#. Instant C# is an excellent tool for
converting class libraries and a great tool for converting user
interface code. We are also impressed by the quick and
responsive support."
– Viktor Edlund
Fleet 101 AB
"I
finally got around to seriously using Instant VB. I'm aghast at how
nice the tool is. I just converted a solution with 5 projects, a
number of winforms, and quite a bit of code. Normally that would
take me the better part of a day (or longer). This took less than
10 minutes, and went without a single hitch. (It even handled my
code that removes event handlers, etc.). I _love_ the Converter.
I do lots of code conversion for articles, demos, and other
projects, so I've needed a quality converter for quite some time
now. Instant VB not only addresses those needs, but makes
converting entire projects painless. Consider me VERY impressed."
- – Michael K. Campbell, Technical Evangelist
- OverAchievers Production
-
-
"Instant
VB works like a charm. I have been struggling hard to
interpret C# to VB.NET myself and could not just do it.
Instant VB converted my C# project successfully in some seconds.
I just wanted to let you know that your product is impeccable and I
would recommend it to all my friends."
- – N. Ranganathan, GIS Architect
"I
just wanted to say how impressed I am with both the product itself
and the incredible level of support that you deliver. I've never
had such prompt and helpful support from any other software vendor
so thank you. Instant VB has saved me literally hours of work and
was well worth the investment. I'm fairly sure I've already
recouped the money within a few days of purchasing this."
–
Martin Pritchard, Proprietor
Wouldlike
"A few
weeks ago, I found on the Internet a great C# project I wanted to
use with my VB.NET application. I bought Instant VB because I don't
know the C# syntax/language. The conversion took only a few seconds
(about 500 lines of code to convert) and I had to correct only 1 or
2 errors after the conversion. I tried the other C# to VB.NET
converters before Instant VB and yours is really the best."
– Jack Gallager, Network Administrator
Geneva, Switzerland
"AWESOME
work. Keep it up, you make good programmers look GREAT!"
"Instant VB worked
perfectly and saved me dozens of hours with a small C# to VB
conversion project that I had. I will be keeping this tool in
my list of frequently used tools and will recommend it to anyone
with a similar need."
– Karl Costenbader, President
Competent Technologies, Inc.
"I went
shopping for a VB.NET -> C# translator and found a positive
reference for Instant C# in some IT blog. When I visited their
site, I noticed that Tangible Software Solutions offers a money-back
guarantee for Instant C#. Having nothing to lose, I gave it a
whirl. The results were outstanding. In just two days, I converted
50,000 lines of VB.NET to C#. I mean that my entire ASP.NET
application was up and running. And 99% of my conversion time was
spent adjusting my code to the superior rigor of C#. I appreciated
the comments that Instant C# inserted wherever there might
be ambiguity. For me, purchasing Instant C# was a no-brainer."
– Carl Kelley, President
WinMetrics Corporation
"Stuck for a VB
sample? Use the C# one and Instant VB!"
"Instant
C# has been an exceptional time saver for BV Software. We were able
to translate almost 100,000 lines of code in a day and offer a C#
version of our BV Commerce software in just a few weeks. We looked
at several other translation products and Instant C# was able to
correctly handle tough challenges that other products failed to
convert."
– Marcus McConnell, President
BV Software
"Instant VB is a lifesaver! We have tried
several language conversion programs, and nearly all of them had
major drawbacks and/or limitations. We were faced with
manually converting/fixing code after the conversion process which
took us a couple days. Now, Instant VB on the other hand has
been the ONLY product that we have used that successfully translates
our 200K+ C# lines into VB.NET code properly. It now takes us
about 5 minutes to do a complete conversion, recompile, and run.
Also, customer service and attention to bug fixes is top rate. We
would highly recommend using Instant VB."
– Robert Brainard, President
AspDotNetStorefront
"We are pleased with Instant C#'s conversion results, as the
conversion has stayed very faithful to the original code."
- – Kathleen Legako, Chief Technology Officer
- Pardalis Software Inc.
-
www.pardalis.com
-
"I
first heard about Instant VB from searching the web for conversion
utilities. I tried numerous demos but always had problems. When I
used your demo, it worked perfectly. I’ve converted several
projects with barely an error, there is usually one or two errors
that I have to fix, typically for a data type or something pretty
simple. Instant VB is a great product."
- – Michael Carter, IT Consultant
-
"I immediately converted 3 full projects which instantly saved me
weeks of tedious line by line conversion. I simply could not have
converted my projects without Instant C#. This utility is sweet!"
– David Ortinau, Senior Web Developer
BEMAS Software, Inc.
"The
support at Tangible Software Solutions really was what made this
application stand out versus the competitors. They were extremely
responsive to both the technical challenges and enhancement requests
to make our conversion a success. We have converted thousands of
lines of code from VB.NET to C# in a production environment and are
very pleased with Instant C#."
– Daryl White, Principal Software Engineer
Providus Software Solutions
"We
used Instant C# to convert a 21 class/module project and the results
were great. All of the errors we found were attributed to coding
practices allowable in VB but not C# (mostly implicit conversions).
The project we converted contained over 8300 lines of code and we
had all of the errors cleaned up within a matter of hours. The time
saved by not doing the conversion manually was well worth the price
of Instant C#. We will definitely use it to convert our other
programs that were written in VB.NET. Your team has done a great
job. Congratulations."
– David Burkinshaw, Senior Software Engineer
Perimeter Technology
"About 12
months ago our team began the process of bringing a legacy product
into the world of Dot Net. This product was in VB6 and COM.. I have
a background in C++ and other lower level languages so dot net was a
real reach for me. I purchased the Instant C# product after I did
some long hard research on conversions and Instant C# is the only
one that was/is consistent and predictable. These are the two most
important concerns at my level. My use has been mostly during my
immersion into Dot Net as a learning tool. I have gotten more
education by using Instant C# to convert from VB.NET to C# to see
the implications, than I could have gotten in 2 years of classrooms.
*(Also dang handy as a quick check to make sure the VB code meets
good coding practices) J
Our flagship product is a solution containing
both C# and VB.NET projects….during my testing and search for a
conversion utility I converted all to C# and tested to see how much
work was needed to make it compile. Consistently, Instant C#
is minimal intervention and consistently it makes the same kinds of
decisions in the same ways so I don’t feel like I am firing a
shotgun at it. For the Architect / Project Manager, Instant C#
fits like a glove as consistency and predictability are the two most
important attributes in our world. Like I say I was/am
impressed."
– Robert Dunlap, Architect
The Moreland Group, Inc.
"I
made the right choice! Before I purchased Instant C#, I did a lot
of research on the Web and either called or sent email to several
companies’ Technical Support. Most companies only have voice mail;
some companies replied to my email one or two days later. Only
Instant C# provides truly responsive Technical Support to support
you instantly -- I tried it, it works great! I would rate them five
stars out of five."
– Shao Wang, Database Developer
Queens-Long Island Medical Group
"Instant
C# saved me many, many hours of code conversion time. It does
a very accurate job and only required minimal manual tweaks on the
converted code."
– Joshua Schlesinger, IS Specialist
Avalon Risk Management Inc.
"I scoured the Internet
for products that would translate VB code to C#. I finally
stumbled upon Instant C# and gave it a try. I was VERY
impressed and purchased the software. I've used it
extensively now and haven't regretted my decision."
– Aaron Rhoads, Project Manager
East Watch, LLC
"I
have just started using Instant
C# and am quite pleased. Our company produces software for a
very narrow market of the HVAC industry. Some of our products
are components. We customarily work in VB6 and VB.NET.
When we discovered the self-documenting features of C# we
decided this would be a better choice for components. Having
no experience with a curly braces language we set out to learn a bit
about C# and give it a try. Fortunately we caught an article
about Instant C# and gave it a try.
We tried the demo first
and found the product simple to use. It produced code that
immediately ran in C#. We especially like the comments it adds to
the C# code explaining why certain actions have been taken.
And the snippet converter is huge for someone just learning C#.
Of course we did have a few
start-up questions, some dumb some other wise, and found tech
support to be responsive. We are glad we purchased Instant
C#."
– Jim Judge, PE, Owner
Linric Company
