Facelift takes a window that was created in an old window designer tool and converts it to a format that can be read by one of the current window designers: Visual Studio Windows Forms designer or one of the Windows Presentation Foundation XAML designers. So Facelift can read a VO Window Editor binary entity, or a window resource entity, or a FoxPro screen definition, or other format, and output it as a .NET Windows Form, or as XAML for WPF, or as XML. Facelift saves you having to repaint the window from scratch, and gives you something to work with when you are redesigning in .NET.

Facelift focuses on carrying forward your window layout. Because the event and GUI models for Win32, .NET Forms and WPF are different, Facelift does not attempt to convert the window/event handling code; you should review this code before updating it for your target GUI. Facelift includes sample applications that demonstrate typical before and after code.

Facelift is currently under limited beta testing. Facelift will be available in a number of versions:

• Facelift Professional: handling multiple input and output formats
• Facelift VO to Vulcan: handling input from VO files, and output as Vulcan code in Visual Studio
• Facelift: FoxPro to Vulcan: handling input from FoxPro screen definitions, and output as Vulcan code in Visual Studio
• and more to come...

Paying subscribers of Vulcan Mind Meld will receive a generous discount on the retail price of Facelift.