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VB6 · Classic ASP · WinForms · .NET Framework

Keep Legacy
Software Alive

Supported, maintained and moved forward — without a risky rewrite.

Talk to us about your system

25

Years building business software

150+

Clients, rated 5/5

18

Years maintaining one system, no rewrite

Why People Call

Almost never because someone woke up wanting to modernise.

01

The developer who wrote it left. Nobody else understands it.

02

Something broke, and the person who always fixed it isn't there.

03

A new integration or compliance change the old system can't meet.

04

You've tried to hire. Nobody with these skills applies.

05

An audit or acquisition flagged it as a business risk.

Sound familiar? That's the whole conversation.

How It Works

First, keep it running

A monthly retainer, not a project. Fixes, small changes, and someone who knows the system. The risk is gone in week one.

Then, move it forward

Modernise a piece at a time, old and new running side by side. The business never stops while it happens.

A rewrite asks for two years and a large budget to arrive back where you already are. That's the real risk — and it isn't the only option.

A beige desktop computer and CRT monitor of the late 1990s

Eighteen Years, No Rewrite

A system we built in 2008 and still run today.

2008

Built on the .NET Framework.

2008–25

Migrated piece by piece, each part when it needed it.

Today

Still live. Never rewritten, never taken offline for one.

What We Work On

VB6 VB.NET Classic ASP VBScript WebForms WinForms .NET Framework WCF MS Access SQL Server Crystal Reports SSRS VBA COM+

Then ASP.NET Core, Blazor and modern SQL Server — if and when you want to go there.

Who You'd Be Working With

Neon Shard is a UK software company specialising in business systems that have been running for decades. Twenty-five years of experience across the .NET Framework and the generation before it — which is why ageing systems don't worry us. You work directly with a senior engineer throughout, never an account manager.

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Email us about your system

nick@neonshard.com