Technical Consulting & Design Review

What this service is for

• deciding whether an existing asset should be kept, wrapped, or replaced
• separating responsibilities between UI, communication, background processing, and logging
• deciding how to cut boundaries between COM / ActiveX / C++/CLI / .NET
• planning where to absorb 32-bit / 64-bit constraints
• deciding what should be observed before a difficult defect investigation starts

Good project phases for this service

• before implementation begins
• before a risky upgrade or maintenance project starts
• when the current structure is painful but a full rewrite is still too heavy
• when repeated defect handling suggests the architecture itself should be cleaned up

Topics commonly covered

• Windows application architecture
• COM / ActiveX / OCX handling
• 32-bit / 64-bit interoperability
• threading model and lifetime design
• logging design, exception design, and abnormal-case testing

Typical way of working

1. First, we clarify the current structure, constraints, and concrete pain points.
2. Next, we separate what should be kept, wrapped, and replaced.
3. If needed, we continue into implementation-oriented review or a written modernization plan.

Projects where this works especially well

KomuraSoft is especially compatible with Windows projects that are slightly old and slightly complicated.

• valuable existing assets still exist
• the current structure is hard to maintain
• but a full rewrite is not yet realistic

In those cases, architectural clarification usually pays off before coding does.