Is there a converter?

[Growlith1223]

Hi um i know this is kinda irrelevant but…Is there a converter on here so i can convert my code from VB6 to C#?

[Godlord]

Why would/do you want to convert it from Microsoft Visual Basic 6 to Microsoft C#.net? C or C++ would be far more useful. Additionally, it isn't exactly possible. Writing compilers to compile any language to bytecode, machine code or Assembly, or another flexible language is hard. Writing compilers that also support optimisation, is way harder. Writing a compiler that converts a restricted language to another restricted language, with optimisations, with the proper conversions of interfaces is improbable.

If you really want this to be converted from Microsoft Visual Basic to Microsoft C#, you'll have to rewrite the entire engine in Microsoft C# from scratch. If you knew how to do that, you would realise that Microsoft C# would be a poor choice.

Yours faithfully,
  Stephan.

[_Her0]

Virtually, there's no converter for any language, I believe. If there was, there'd have to be VERY similar code. I.E, print would make text print in one language, and printline would make text print in another, the converter would convert print to printline, fixing the problem. That wouldn't work here, as Visual Basic 6 is completely different than any other language.

[Godlord]

No, compilers and assemblers do exist and are very common, as processors always execute machine code, and as virtual machines almost always execute bytecode. Compilers that do convert language X to language Y are very exotic though.

Yours faithfully,
  Stephan.

[Robin]

**tl;dr:** No, and you shouldn't be looking for one.