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Migrate incrementally far more often than a rewrite makes sense. A rewrite throws away years of business logic encoded in the existing application, much of which exists nowhere else, and the replacement typically spends its first year rediscovering edge cases through bug reports. We recommend a full rewrite only when the Windows-only dependencies are so pervasive that isolating them costs more than starting clean — which does happen, but it's the exception, not the default answer.

On a migration, the main driver is how many Windows-only dependencies stand between the current application and modern .NET — that audit is what turns a vague estimate into a real one. On a new build, it's the number of integrations and the auditability requirements, since typed contracts and compliance-ready logging take real engineering time to get right. A single service migration is typically weeks; a full estate migration across many services runs months, sequenced to avoid a single cutover point.

Azure AD and claims-based authorisation are enforced consistently at the API boundary rather than per controller, audit logging captures who changed what and when, and data-residency requirements are built into the architecture from the start where the deployment needs to stay inside a specific region or your own Azure tenant. This matters more in .NET's typical domain — finance, insurance, healthcare — than in most other stacks, so we treat it as a first-class requirement, not an add-on.

If the application is internal, has a small user base, isn't exposed to the internet, and isn't blocking a compliance requirement, staying on .NET Framework a while longer is sometimes genuinely fine — the migration cost should be weighed against the actual risk, not against a general sense that the stack is outdated. We'll say so during the audit rather than sell a migration that isn't urgent yet. Where .NET Framework is exposed externally or the support clock has run out, that calculus changes.

Yes, and given how hard it is to find engineers who know both modern .NET and Framework-era patterns, it's a common request. Engineers work inside your repository, your branching model and your code review from day one, matching your existing conventions.

Almost always a specific set of Windows-only dependencies — COM interop calls, System.Web-specific APIs, a third-party library that was never ported to modern .NET. The dependency audit in step one identifies exactly which ones apply to your application and whether each has a modern replacement or needs an isolation strategy, which is what turns "we should migrate" into a scoped, estimable project.

Our own in-house engineers in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab — 45+ of them, with over a decade of combined delivery experience, delivering for clients in 15+ countries. Nothing is subcontracted. You meet the engineers who will be on your project before you sign, and the person demonstrating the sprint is the person who wrote it.

Auditability requirements, existing team skills, and how much of the organisation already runs on Microsoft tooling and Azure. See our broader page on choosing between stacks for how we weigh .NET against Node.js and the frontend frameworks it often serves — the short version is that .NET tends to win where long-term support and typed, auditable enterprise tooling matter more than shipping speed.