title: What tools exist to convert a Delphi 7 application to C# and the .Net framework?
body: <p>I maintain an old PC-only application written in Delphi 7. Although Delphi has served me very well in the past I now only use it for this one application and find my skills with the language diminishing. Its syntax is too different from my 'day job' languages of Java/Ruby so it takes me longer to get into the groove of writing new code, plus it is so old I have not used many <strong>interface</strong>s so the code is not managed which seems ancient to me now!</p>
  
  <p>Many of my users are moving to Vista which may run the app in compatibility mode or may have GPF problems depending on how their PC is configured by their IT department, so I have to do some maintenance on the application.  I'm wondering if I should jump to a more familiar stack.</p>
  
  <p>Is there an automated tool that will do the legwork of converting the code base to C#, leaving me to concentrate on the conversion on any non-standard components?  I'm using an embedded database component called <a href="http://www.componentace.com/bde_replacement_database_delphi_absolute_database.htm" rel="noreferrer">AbsoluteDatabase</a> which is BDE compatible and using standard SQL throughout, and a native Delphi HTML browser component which can be swapped out with something from the Microsoft world.</p>
  
  <p>How good are these conversion tools?</p>