Visual Basic Apps Are Still Running Your Business. Here's How to Move Them to the Web

The VB app that runs the business

Visual Basic was the workhorse of Canadian small business software for two decades. Inventory, invoicing, payroll, scheduling — thousands of companies still run critical operations on VB6 and VB.NET desktop applications that nobody can update and fewer can maintain.

The software works. That's exactly why it's still there. But it's locked to office PCs, breaks on modern Windows, and the developers who knew VB are retiring.

What a modern rebuild keeps and loses

A rebuild keeps the business logic — the rules, calculations, and workflows refined over years — and loses the desktop. Screens become browser pages, data becomes a proper database, and the app becomes accessible from any device.

The rebuild targets React for the interface, Node.js for the logic layer, and Tailwind for a clean responsive design. Same rules, modern foundation.

Low risk, staged, verified

The safe path is staged: inventory the forms and rules, rebuild module by module, run both systems in parallel, and verify outputs match before cutover. Your team never stops working, and there's always a working system.

This is exactly the kind of migration a managed team handles end to end — so the business keeps running while the technology moves forward.