Migrating an old .NET application including Crystal reports to the new world: A tale from the valley of sorrows
My current project consists of an old .NET 2.0 application running on a 32 bit environment and was developed in 2007. The customer works in medical solutions thus underlying some strict rules on behalf of technology and frameworks being used. The software has to run through a special auditing process following some special rules defined for medical software. This is mainly the reason why it's never been ported to a newer version of .NET before. At the end of this year the customer will change his IT landscape though and switch over to x64 systems. x86 will no longer be supported. Therefore I was asked to do some sort of evaluation or assessment whether the old software will run in an x64 environment smoothely and which steps have to be made. Let's put the thing that struck me most first: Thinking back to the old days in 2007 I still can remember what was state of the art in .NET at these days. One could have started a WPF application already but perhaps that was to early for