Estimated cost for converting PHP to ASP.NET

[lwzmovie]

Hi - if I have created a PHP web application in 5 months (850 workign
hours) and now I want to convert it to ASP.NET, then how many hours do
I need to invest in to make this happen? Anybody has any experience on
this?

 

[Peter Rilling]

Although I have not used PHP, there are some variables you failed to mention
with this question.

1) Do you know .NET or are you learning as you go?
2) Was the PHP code designed correctly or will you have to change the
system as you convert the code?

 

[lwzmovie]

1) Yes I know .NET pretty well.

2) During PHP app development we did not thinking about converting it
to ASP.NET later so the code is not well designed for C# converting.

 

[Morgan]

Dont know if these will help or not...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/using/migrating/phpmig/whitepapers/default.aspx

 

[AMDRIT]

Let me recommend:

Code Complete, Second Edition (Paperback)
ISBN: 0735619670

no, I am not affiliated with it. but in there are some great concepts on
dissecting a project and estimating units of work.

I saw a spreadsheet once that appeared to be a direct translation of those
concepts.

My estimation of time on effort may be differnent than yours. I cannot
speak towards PHP but I can speak on VB 6 to VB 7, and what I thought would
be a pretty easy migration turned out to be more involved.

Either way 850 hours is a significant investment for one person, ~21 weeks
of coding. The good news is, hopefully, you have a great deal of lessons
learned during the process, and user feedback once in production. I would
bid it from scratch as worse case and then toggle your normal hadicap.