How hard is it to migrate a project from Delphi 7 to Delphi XE?

Question

Our company have a software that has been in development for over 10 years, so there are some really dated stuff in there. It\'s still quite functional and everything, but I see

Answer 1

You mentioned SQL in one of your response comments... Does your database support unicode? If not, you could be in for a lot of work. You may need to convert databases on-the-fly or make a conversion tool for your users. You may need to upgrade the database or even switch to something else. For example, DBISAM is not unicode capable, but the vendor makes ElevateDB which is. The transition is not trivial. And some other libraries like Hyperstring, written largely in assembler, are another sore spot.