We rewrote a legacy Delphi (Object Pascal) application into a .NET C# service worker in three months, beating a five-month deadline for a client in the healthcare software space.
Here’s what actually made that possible and the pitfalls we hit using LLMs along the way.
A sluggish ASP.NET page with 3,850 checkboxes was taking 38 seconds to load. By collaborating with Claude Code and shifting to client-side rendering, load times dropped to just 1.5 seconds โ a 25ร performance boost. Hereโs how AI-assisted refactoring transformed the page and the development process.
Outdated deployment practices can slow down even the best software teams. When youโre still manually moving files between servers, itโs easy for small mistakes to slip through and updates to take longer than they should. At Keyhole Software, weโve seen firsthand how this approach can hold back your projects. The solution is to automate deployment pipelines. It brings consistency, reliability, …
Itโs common to face challenges around long-running workflows, state management, and resiliency when youโre building cloud-native applications. Traditional approaches like background services or message queues might work sometimes, but they often require a lot of โglue codeโ and custom retry logic. This entails not only more work up-front for the developer, but also more maintenance in the long run.
Thatโs where Azure Durable Functions come in.
In this blog, Iโll demonstrate how to harness .NET MAUIโs capabilities by building a Google Maps app. Iโll walk you through how to set up your environment and how to integrate native services like the Google Maps Android SDKโall within the modern, unified framework that .NET MAUI provides.