FmPro Migrator cuts 16-year FoxPro rebuild to under a year

com Solutions Inc. says its FmPro Migrator Site License Edition helped an organization convert a business-critical Visual FoxPro application in less than a year, versus an internal estimate of 16 years for a manual rewrite. The company is pitching the server-based, air-gapped system as a faster way to modernize legacy code, forms and reports without sending source code to the cloud.

Why it matters: - com Solutions Inc. is positioning FmPro Migrator Site License Edition as a way to turn legacy application rewrites from multi-year consulting projects into a single-developer workflow. - The product is aimed at organizations that still depend on unsupported Visual FoxPro systems and need to modernize without exposing source code to public cloud services. - The company says the approach can reduce cost, shorten timelines, and expand the pool of developers who can take on the work.

What happened: - com Solutions Inc. released details of a customer migration project on July 31, 2026. - The customer, a midwestern U.S. organization, used FmPro Migrator Site License Edition to help rebuild a business-critical Visual FoxPro application. - The company says the project compressed an internally estimated 16-year manual rewrite into less than one year of work. - The application included about 500,000 lines of code and 350 forms and reports.

The details: - com Solutions Inc. shipped a pre-configured server with 512GB of unified memory and 80 GPU cores. - The server came pre-loaded with machine learning models selected for Visual FoxPro to C# conversion accuracy. - The setup let the customer start converting code on day one instead of spending weeks on model evaluation, GPU procurement, and environment setup. - The server runs air-gapped inside the customer’s data center. - Source code, schema and business logic stay on premises during the project. - Developers connect to local LLMs from desktop copies of FmPro Migrator. - The Site License Edition uses fixed pricing with unlimited developer seats. - The bundled hardware processes millions of tokens per day without metered cloud billing. - The Code Conversion Workbench lets developers describe in plain English how specific Visual FoxPro constructs should be handled. - One documented training rule replaces VFP inlist() calls with a purpose-built StartsWithAny() helper class. - Other training records extend empty() checks to catch whitespace, standardize the $ substring operator, and wrap numeric comparisons in parentheses for readability and precedence. - Training records can be enabled or disabled individually. - The same training records work across local and cloud models.

Between the lines: - The biggest bottleneck in many legacy rebuilds is not code translation alone. Forms and reports often drive the timeline, and FmPro Migrator is built to attack that part of the job. - The company is also using the case study to argue that smaller local models, when tuned with project-specific training records, can approach the quality of larger public models. - The pitch lowers both technical and procurement friction. That matters for teams that cannot wait for a custom migration services engagement or rely on the original application developers.

What's next: - The Layout Conversion Workbench is designed to produce high-fidelity GUI conversions across multiple target frameworks and languages. - Supported conversions include .NET XAML WPF with EF Core and C# or VB. - Planned conversions include ASP.NET C#, CakePHP 5.x, Angular with TypeScript, Angular with TypeScript plus Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Python with Django, React Native with TypeScript for CLI or Expo, and .NET MAUI XAML with MVVM and C#. - The resulting project files are ready for development in Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex and VSCode. - FmPro Migrator 11.85 is available now for macOS and Windows. - FmPro Migrator Site License Edition will be demonstrated at the Full Access conference Aug. 6-10 at the Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, California.

The bottom line: - com Solutions Inc. is betting that air-gapped hardware, prompt-based training and automated layout conversion can make legacy FoxPro modernization faster, cheaper and less risky than traditional rewrites.