title: Move project from Delphi 3 to Delphi 2010
body: <p>I've been asked to re-open a project I wrote in 1998/99 in Delphi 3 and which has been running stably since then.  I have the Delphi 3 code base on an aging Windows 98 machine which exists only to keep this project alive.  Obviously, I'd like to bring the source code base into the 21st century before undertaking any major revisions.</p>
  
  <p>I note happily that Delphi 2010 (I'm currently on 2007) claims to be able to import projects from Delphi 2 on.  Does anyone have any experience importing large projects from Delphi 3?  Can I expect this to be an easy transition, or a difficult one?</p>
  
  <p>In addition the original project makes use of third party components including DBISAM, WPTools, and TMS Planner.  I note that all of these are still available for the latest release of Delphi.   Assuming I first install the new versions into Delphi 2010 can I expect the parts of my application that use these components to be translated as well?  I know that at least WPTools has changed some of its component structures and interfaces since the version used in the original application and obviously I'll have some recoding to do there, but will the failure of those parts of the program prevent my code base from being upgraded at all?</p>