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There seems to be little information around from people who were actually there at the time.

Nonsense.

There would be at least N+1 versions ;)

On Saturday May 21st Sue Gee of i-programmer magazine www.i-programmer.info posted a call on the Microsoft UserVoice site.
The call asked that, on the 25th anniversary of Classic VB, it should be...

Indeed. That is the obvious attraction of David Platt's suggestion to use a VB6-like IDE and language to generate JS/HTML5.

I wondered that too. If you are not the Shaggy who posted that, there must be something fishy going on :)



You cut me to the quick. I spent minutes slaving over that post. ;)



Well, no. ...

There is the possibility of an Intel based Microsoft Surface phone being launched this year, running Windows 10. VB6 programming is impressive on the Windows 10 Surface and Surface Pro tablets, so it...

Microsoft say they support VB6 programming on Windows 10 for its (Windows 10's) lifetime:-

"VB6 runtime will ship and will be supported in Windows 10 for the lifetime of the OS. Visual Basic 6.0...

Either should work. Gibra's installer is a utility program to install the VB IDE for you. FortyPoundHead have a set instructions. It is just personal preference. Don't forget to install the VB6...

I have VB6 Enterprise running on Windows 7 and Windows 10 64bit (and I used to have it on Windows 8.x, though I have now deleted that hopeless OS from my PCs and hopefully my memory).
I'm sure many...

Vista SP2 is the best compatibility setting.
XP SP3 is OK too, but has the "desktop composition" slowness.

I usually have Reduced Color Mode set to 16 bit (65536), and Disable Display Scaling...

Microsoft do say that they test the Visual Basic 6 IDE to "mitigate compatibility issues". Whether that is worth more or less than Microsoft's guarantee that the VB6 Runtime will be supported for the...

Microsoft say


So VB6 programming on Windows 10 is currently supported until October 14, 2025

Maintaining existing code is a major reason for the continuance of VB6 programming. And 'maintaining' doesn't mean just keeping an application running, but updating and extending it too.

If you...

Also some dlls and ocxs that may be used by VB6 apps aren't installed by default on newer versions of Windows. So check what you are using and make sure the installer has them (and that they are...

Most API's should be OK, It depends what you have used.


These should all be OK


InitCommonControls should be fine (and you should do it for the same reason you did in XP)

Basically you...

Hi Fenrir,

Is the "unexpected error" when you are trying to install ? Or did the installation work apparently OK but you get the error when trying to run your program ?

Did you run the...

Axisdj,

The other suggestion I had was to look at Krool's CommonControls replacement

This is a replacement for many of Microsoft's OCX controls, but done in VB6 as User Controls or Classes....

Gibra posts in this forum and has developed a utility to install the VB6 programming IDE on Windows 7, 8 and 10.
...

Hi Axisdj,

Good isn't it !

It has been published for several years (sorry!).

For graphical buttons I believe you are right, I think I changed mine to standard buttons years ago. But I think...

A manifest is a standard text file (in XML format) - which you can create in Notepad.
You can then put this file into the same folder as your application.
(You can actually embed the manifest into...

Hi Axisdj,

As The trick says you can use a Manifest to quickly update the look of your controls. (I guess you may already be aware of this).

And you can use non-OCX controls too.
I'd recommend...

You should be seeing "Build 9860" on the screen

Navion,

There is a new build 9860 of Windows 10 TP available.

Your comments about VB6 for Mobile Apps are interesting. Years ago there was eMbedded VB for Windows CE/Windows Mobile.
I doubt...

Don't worry Navion. There is a much larger audience interested in VB6 programming than many imagine.

I don't know if you are familiar with Gibra's installer for VB6 on Windows 7 and 8 - it is a...

Hi WP,

I think you need to define just what you are suggesting.

95% compatibility sounds good. But 95% of what ?

Will that include ActiveX/OCX support (at least on a 32 bit compile) ?
Will...

I doubt that, piscatorial essence does tend to linger. ;)

It certainly is.

I wasn't turtley concentrating when I said 'Let's not get crabby', it was manta to be addressed generally, not to you pacifically.

Yes. let's not get crabby.

This plaice is just too funny.
I can't believe it is the same thread I started reading, everything seems to be going swimmingly now. It certainly has my seal of approval.

I think the pun you are looking for is "plumbed the depths" :)


:D

It's always interesting to set the catfish among the pigeons (apologies to those who have to look up that idiom) and see who...

Gone fishing, obviously :)


What do you mean 'old' - they are all original. Nothing fishy about them ;)


I just couldn't let a word like "Proseletyzing" go without making a comment. :)...

Thanks for giving us the oppor-tuna-ty to make these bad puns, Funky.

But I have to be on my pike now.

Carp diem

This thread shouldn't be about language versus language. It should be about Microsoft's mis-hake in discarding the VB6 programming language. In doing so they have left VB6 developers in the perch...

You don't have to be a brain sturgeon to think up a fish pun, but it is certainly giving me a haddock.

I guess that is why other posters are being koi.

But don't feel gill-ty about fish puns, fins could be a shoal lot worse - we are just dropping a line, not using a .net.

:):D:D

You're clearly a dab hand at this.

Do you think a mod will ofishially ban us ? I'm certainly not trying to upset anyone on porpoise.

Just before a .NETter pulls me up on this - I know a mussel isn't a fish. I just thought it would be shellfish not to share.

I'm laughing so hard I might pull a mussel.

@Colin, I'll need time to mullet over before I can come up with another fish pun.

OK, I'll bite. Just for the halibut.

VB6 programmers have better things to do than post on threads relating to languages they do not use.

Proseletyzing? Perhaps the prawn-again .NETters carp...