by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Sep 24, 2026, 9:43:22 AM
Legacy desktop and client-server applications silently run many critical pieces of enterprise businesses. They barely stay alive and running, while the platform underneath them ages out of support, the developers …
Read Storyby Oscar Poveda, on Aug 15, 2026, 10:23:32 AM
Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 4, 2026, 7:06:29 PM
The July 2026 Visual Studio update added something super cool: built-in skills, authored by the .NET and Azure teams, that appear in the Copilot tool picker whenever the matching workload …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 17, 2026, 3:37:43 PM
I watched the full .NET Day Agentic Modernization, and it was fantastic. You should definitely watch it. The GitHub Copilot app modernization agent did legit work: AST-aware project-system migration (packagesconfig …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Jun 7, 2026, 12:00:00 AM
When you're considering modernizing a legacy app, it can be hard to figure out where to even start. At GAPVelocity AI, we see teams with legacy applications written anywhere from …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jun 6, 2026, 7:01:46 PM
It isn't a quality score. On a twenty-year-old codebase, the comment-to-code ratio is one of the cheapest risk signals you can read if you know what you're looking at. Every …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on May 23, 2026, 11:02:07 AM
For those of you with technical debt (all of us, amirite?), here's my guidance on what to watch out for at Build 2026, especially if you're thinking about application modernization …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 14, 2026, 1:16:43 PM
A field guide to the last 30% and why it's where modernization projects live or die. You pasted your VB6 module into Claude. Or maybe ChatGPT. Maybe Copilot. And what …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Feb 8, 2026, 12:00:00 AM
A comprehensive reference for development teams navigating the hidden challenges of .NET modernization. Executive Summary Migrating from .NET Framework 4.x to .NET 10 is a total platform transformation. This document …
Read Storyby William Quesada, on Jan 5, 2026, 2:54:10 PM
Code modernization is about more than looking modern; enterprises require high end functionality with modern standards. We ran a side-by-side analysis where we pitted GAP’s Deterministic (think precision) AI migration …
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