Category: Artificial Intelligence

Many enterprises still maintain legacy Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) applications built on .NET Framework. While these applications continue to serve business needs, organizations face growing challenges: a shrinking VB.NET developer talent pool, limited modern tooling support, and a difficult path to cross-platform .NET modernization. Migrating from VB.NET to C# addresses these challenges by opening access […]

Since launching the AWS Transform service in May 2025, we’ve heard from .NET customers who want a conversational agent they can work alongside of throughout the transformation process. In this post, I’ll give you a tour of the new Visual Studio IDE experience featuring a conversational AI assistant as I walk you through a complex […]

Introduction Upgrading .NET Lambda functions is manual, time-consuming, and error-prone, especially when managing hundreds of functions across multiple repositories. Each upgrade requires updating .csproj target framework files (the C# project configuration that specifies which .NET version to target), bumping NuGet package references (the .NET package manager, like npm for Node.js), fixing breaking API changes, and […]

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform various types of .NET Framework projects to modern versions of .NET including .NET 10. Until recently that support was limited to projects written in C#, the most-used .NET language. AWS Transform can now transform projects written in Visual […]

In this post, we will show how we used Kiro, an AI-powered IDE (Integrated Development Environment) from AWS, to simplify the process of transforming a Windows Forms application into a modern ASP.NET Core Blazor web application. Windows Forms has been a cornerstone of .NET desktop development since 2002, making it easy to build graphically rich […]

This post describes a former product experience. For the current experience, visit Modernize .NET with the AWS Transform conversational AI assistant for Visual Studio. At re:Invent 2025, AWS Transform unveiled an enhanced .NET developer experience in Visual Studio that is customizable, transparent, iterative, and collaborative. Our customers have asked for more insight into transformation activity […]

Introduction Log analysis helps you maintain reliable applications by identifying issues, troubleshooting problems, and gaining operational insights. Traditional log analysis struggles with unstructured data and requires hours of manual work to extract meaningful patterns. Generative AI transforms this process by automatically identifying anomalies, understanding context, and surfacing specific recommendations without complex configuration. In this post, […]

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform legacy .NET applications to modern cross-platform .NET. AWS Transform can port your Xamarin.Forms mobile applications to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI). In this post, I’ll show you how to transform your Xamarin.Forms projects to modern .NET MAUI. Why […]

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform .NET Framework Windows applications to cross-platform .NET and reduce operating costs up to 40% by running on Linux. For ASP.NET web applications, AWS Transform can port the UI layer to ASP.NET Core. In this post, I’ll explain how […]

AWS Transform is an agentic service that accelerates modernization, including .NET applications. With it, you can transform .NET Framework Windows applications to cross-platform .NET and reduce operating costs up to 40% by running on Linux. For ASP.NET web applications, AWS Transform can port the UI layer to ASP.NET Core. In this post, I’ll explain how […]