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  1. Jan 8th, 2009, 12:54 PM #1
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    Hello.

    We have a shipping application (DMCe, if anyone has ever heard of it..) that was written with quite a bit of visual basic 6.0 apparently, and while this program worked fine with XP and IE 6.0, once 7.0 came out, the application failed to launch IF the application was installed AFTER the upgrade to 7.0. If it was installed before the upgrade, for whatever reason, it worked fine. With the arrival of Vista however, that of course won't work since Vista comes factory shipped with IE7...and apparently can't be removed...so now I have to try to figure out HOW to get a .vbd page to load in Vista...anyone have any clue as to how I can do this?
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  2. Jan 8th, 2009, 03:48 PM #2
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    Re: Another Visual Basic-Vista Issue

    have you contacted the developers of the program?
    i do my best to test code works before i post it, but sometimes am unable to do so for some reason, and usually say so if this is the case.
    Note code snippets posted are just that and do not include error handling that is required in real world applications, but avoid On Error Resume Next

    dim all variables as required as often i have done so elsewhere in my code but only posted the relevant part

    come back and mark your original post as resolved if your problem is fixed
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  3. Jan 8th, 2009, 07:11 PM #3
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    Re: Another Visual Basic-Vista Issue

    See: ActiveX Documents Do Not Install.

    The upshot is that this is old VB 4 & 5 technology that Vista does not fully support. This Project type apparently only existed in VB6 as a transition aid toward DHTML Applications and WebClasses.
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  4. Jan 9th, 2009, 02:30 AM #4
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    Re: Another Visual Basic-Vista Issue

    Since MS' solution is to replace the app, you "could" rewrite in ASP.NET and have a very rhobust replacement with future capabilities.

    * Disclaimer: This is not a push to .NET but a possible solution that Microsoft also suggests
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