Moran_1

Great question. If you're looking for a tool to convert your legacy apps such as COBOL to .NET and to HTML5 or even PowerBuilder, VB.NET to modern .NET languages and to HTML5, you should consider Transposition by Gizmox. I see that most of the responses that you got were that …

ASP.NET as it is is a multi-purpose web development framework

VisualWebGui is also an option as it allows you to design rich HTML5 business apps within Visual Studio as it is integrated into VS

Yes, I know of a tool that can convert your VB.NET application to ASP.NET. It is called Transposition and it rearchitect your single user C/S app for mobile and multi users. It refactors your source code to .NET best practices and redesigns legacy UI and UX. It does this through …

If you would like to develop for cross platfrom, I would recommend visualwebgui for cross platform development and for native-like development. Yo ucan take a look and see if it meets your requirements for creating a messaging application. To answer your concern, you will not need a Mac for this …