Migration of a desktop ERP system from Windows Forms to .NET 6

Our client was a company engaged in a full cycle of glasses production and distribution: from buying raw materials and design to sales. The company had its own desktop ERP system written with Windows Forms 10 years ago. At that time, this technology was highly popular for creating Windows desktop apps and server solutions.

Very often companies postpone the process of software migration if their solutions still function. And as a result, developers are more exhausted from dealing with legacy systems than their owners. But there is an obvious relation between modernization and benefits for businesses.

Just like many other companies, our customer hadn’t paid a lot of attention to the necessity to update software before facing serious system downtimes and big problems with its productivity. Due to such issues with the legacy software, it was a real challenge to add even one simple function.
Earlier, the company had only one enterprise and the app was available to all the employees via the local network. But then the company started to expand its business and it became necessary to migrate the app server part to the cloud for making it possible for the employees of different subsidiaries to get access to the data via the internet.

In such a way, the system evolution with the help of .NET Core was significantly easier and more feasible. That’s why the company decided to migrate its system to a newer version of .NET.