Case Study: Modernizing Banking from FoxPro to .NET – Successful Migration from a Legacy VFP Application
A financial services company, specializing in equity and fixed income trading, investment banking, and research, sought to modernize its 25-year-old in-house developed Visual FoxPro (VFP) application used for risk management and reporting. The legacy application, built in Visual FoxPro 8 and utilizing both VFP and SQL Server databases, required a transition to a more robust and scalable architecture.
The legacy system was a Visual FoxPro 8 application that integrated with both VFP and SQL Server databases. It was operational for 25 years, consistently evolving through regular updates and enhancements to address the business's changing requirements. The system played a critical role in risk management and reporting, maintaining reliability and efficiency throughout its extensive lifespan, while adapting to the firm's expanding needs in financial services and data management. Despite its age, the application remained a cornerstone of the client’s operations until the recent migration to a modern architecture
The client opted to migrate to a modern architecture using Microsoft C# .NET for the backend and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for the frontend.
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