Visual Studio 6 Install on Win10?
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Hi All, My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches. In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??:confused:
Are you on a 64 bit version of Windows 10? If so you won't be able to install VS 6. The reason is Windows 10 x64 no longer supports 16 bit applications and the VS 6 setup program is a 16 bit application. What you can do though, is create a VM using Hyper-V and install XP on it and then install VS 6 in that VM.
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With Alan Partridge 'Aha!' Probably never need it but...
The real reason it's hard to install is that even Win10 tries to vomit when VB6 gets too close ...
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The real reason it's hard to install is that even Win10 tries to vomit when VB6 gets too close ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
:laugh:
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Are you on a 64 bit version of Windows 10? If so you won't be able to install VS 6. The reason is Windows 10 x64 no longer supports 16 bit applications and the VS 6 setup program is a 16 bit application. What you can do though, is create a VM using Hyper-V and install XP on it and then install VS 6 in that VM.
So, you can, Installed XP emmulation but not really used it.
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Hi All, My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches. In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??:confused:
I had a similar experience and used VirtualBox running XP.
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Hi All, My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches. In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??:confused:
Yeah, VB6 will install on Windows 10. I had to do this last year. Various articles online explaining this, including the one that Griff pointed out. We had the same scenario, needed to get access to the original source code in order to port over to current .Net C#. That was a nightmare, let me tell you. :sigh: I am amazed at how many production systems still run VB6 apps. :wtf:
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Yeah, VB6 will install on Windows 10. I had to do this last year. Various articles online explaining this, including the one that Griff pointed out. We had the same scenario, needed to get access to the original source code in order to port over to current .Net C#. That was a nightmare, let me tell you. :sigh: I am amazed at how many production systems still run VB6 apps. :wtf:
The UK Police use or used a system of VB6 talking to a Database, so wanted some one like Billy Tables (from XKCD) to get arrested to see if would handle that...
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Are you on a 64 bit version of Windows 10? If so you won't be able to install VS 6. The reason is Windows 10 x64 no longer supports 16 bit applications and the VS 6 setup program is a 16 bit application. What you can do though, is create a VM using Hyper-V and install XP on it and then install VS 6 in that VM.
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Hi All, My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches. In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??:confused:
OTVDM or download portable VB6 (search google) You can also look here, might be of interest ([^])
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Hi All, My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches. In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??:confused:
