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fixing vc6 installation

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    John R Shaw
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    The problem is that my hard drive crashed about 2 years ago and the original CD set is in storage in another state. Today I finally decided that I would like it installed on my XP machine. I have copied the recovered VC6 directory to my machined, but, of course, it needs to be fixed. Is there a list of directory paths and registry entries some where or some other fix. Thanks,

    INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

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      The problem is that my hard drive crashed about 2 years ago and the original CD set is in storage in another state. Today I finally decided that I would like it installed on my XP machine. I have copied the recovered VC6 directory to my machined, but, of course, it needs to be fixed. Is there a list of directory paths and registry entries some where or some other fix. Thanks,

      INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

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      _AnsHUMAN_
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      That would have to be a lot of work done manually and you might miss one or many things during the process. I would suggest a new installation for VC6.0 to be done on this machine.

      You talk about Being HUMAN. I have it in my name AnsHUMAN

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        The problem is that my hard drive crashed about 2 years ago and the original CD set is in storage in another state. Today I finally decided that I would like it installed on my XP machine. I have copied the recovered VC6 directory to my machined, but, of course, it needs to be fixed. Is there a list of directory paths and registry entries some where or some other fix. Thanks,

        INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

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        If this has been out of use for 2 years then I presume you only use it for personal projects. If that is the case then I would suggest you forget VC6 (unless you really need MFC) and go for the Visual Studio Express editions[^].

        The best things in life are not things.

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          If this has been out of use for 2 years then I presume you only use it for personal projects. If that is the case then I would suggest you forget VC6 (unless you really need MFC) and go for the Visual Studio Express editions[^].

          The best things in life are not things.

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          John R Shaw
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          Good guess (MFC). I plan on the Resurrection of some old projects for the purpose of updating them. It helps to have the original development tools when working with old [GUI] code. Up until 2 years ago, all my cross-platform code included VC6 compatibility; I decided dropped that though. Note: There are still commercial Apps the use MFC and posting for positions requiring it.

          INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

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            Good guess (MFC). I plan on the Resurrection of some old projects for the purpose of updating them. It helps to have the original development tools when working with old [GUI] code. Up until 2 years ago, all my cross-platform code included VC6 compatibility; I decided dropped that though. Note: There are still commercial Apps the use MFC and posting for positions requiring it.

            INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone

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            John R. Shaw wrote:

            There are still commercial Apps the use MFC and posting for positions requiring it.

            I didn't mean to imply that MFC is no longer current, it's just that it is not available with the (free) Express editions of Visual C++.

            The best things in life are not things.

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              John R. Shaw wrote:

              There are still commercial Apps the use MFC and posting for positions requiring it.

              I didn't mean to imply that MFC is no longer current, it's just that it is not available with the (free) Express editions of Visual C++.

              The best things in life are not things.

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              Rolf Kristensen
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              There is a workaround for compiling old MFC applications in VS Express - How to compile MFC code in Visual C++ Express[^]

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