VB6 with Vista

bz · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 55

Do you guys know what I should be aware of for installing VB6 in Vista?

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Ralph · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4148

"bz" wrote in message
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> Do you guys know what I should be aware of for installing VB6 in Vista?
>

I will provide a partial answer. (As it is Saturday and few people are
around.)

There appear to be a number of issues that different individuals have run
into. But not necessarily everyone. Few with the actual install itself, more
often with the installation of the SPs.

Many errors are reported concern the MDAC (it no longer exists on Vista
having been replaced with the DAC).

Your best bet is to install and find out what you will run into. Then search
for specific examples in the Vista and VB newsgroup.

Kyle Smith reported the following work-around for one of the the more common
errors in microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion "RE: Trying to install vb6
in Vista"

"how to make service pack 5 install on vista

Tutorial:
Step 1) Open C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf with 'Notepad.exe'
Step 2) Replace the following line

13 Group 28 36 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23
43
-with-
13 Group 28 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43

Step 3) Delete the following lines leaving only a carriage return where
it was

36 Depend "27 ? : 37"
37 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC"

Step 4) Save and close C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf
Step 5) Run setupsp5.exe
"

it appears to work.

hth
-ralph