# Converting VB.Net to Mercury in Command Line
**URL:** https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349
**Category:** Mercury
**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349 "2021-03-08T07:50:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Harald\_Bacik](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/Harald_Bacik)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349/1 "2021-03-08T07:50:13Z")
Hey
Based on the forum post here: [https://talk.remobjects.com/t/water-create-project-from-command-line/24067](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/water-create-project-from-command-line/24067)
and the video: " Importing your existing Visual [Basic.NET](http://Basic.NET) projects to use them in Mercury."
I wanted to ask, if you can enable this feature within the “RemObjects.Elements.ProjectSystem.dll” as well, so it would be possible to transform an [VB.Net](http://VB.Net) project to Mercury at runtime.
THX a lot in advance
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### Author:  [@mh](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/mh)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349/2 "2021-03-08T12:30:06Z")
It’s already available via RemObjects.EBuild.Elements.dll:
```auto
var p := new RemObjects.EBuild.Elements.EBuildElementsProject withFile("path/to.vbproj" Format(".vbproj");
p.SaveToFile("path/to.elements"));
```
(the Format parameter ia actually ignored, it goes by the file extension. It remains to work around a limitation with contractor overloading in .NET).
That said, you can also convert via ebuild.exe
`ebuild --convert /path/to.vbproj /path/to.elements`
Which does the same, but is more future proof in case the above API, which is not officially public, should ever change.
—marc
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### Author:  [@Harald\_Bacik](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/Harald_Bacik)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349/3 "2021-03-08T13:17:09Z")
Hey Marc!
THX a lot for this information!
Have a nice day - Harald
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### Author:  [@mh](https://talk.remobjects.com/u/mh)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/converting-vb-net-to-mercury-in-command-line/24349/4 "2021-03-08T13:18:19Z")
any time; you too!