Migrating a Visual FoxPro system to .NET: an order of work that holds up

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Over a two-and-a-half-year engagement I migrated 42 financial workflows from a legacy Visual FoxPro system to C# and .NET Core, as the sole engineer. The old system carried two decades of business logic and had no written specification. The domain layer was rebuilt on Entity Framework Core with 42 T-SQL stored procedures against SQL Server, the FoxPro reports were replaced with reporting workflows in a Blazor application, and the old system was retired. This is the order of work I would recommend to anyone facing the same kind of migration. Visual FoxPro mixes data, logic and screens in one pl

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