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Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
I have compiled a list of changes required for your VB6 application to work correctly on Vista. If you learn something new please post the information in this thread. Every once in awhile I will edit this first post to keep the list complete. So far this is what is known:
Application Changes
Setup Package Changes Administrator Account running your Setup Package
Non-Administrator Account running your Setup Package
Visual Basic IDE Changes
Useful Links
Credits
Last edited by Hassan Basri; Sep 5th, 2007 at 07:36 PM. |
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
Thanks for the 'heads up' on SendKeys.
That's a bummer. Here is a link on the subject - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...74685&SiteID=1
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
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You can acces it like this: - Rightclick on the desktop - Choose Personalization - Choose Windows Color and Appearance - Choose Open Classic appearance properties for more color options - Select Windows Vista Basic and press OK or Apply. Just because i hate the classic windows look :P |
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
Another incompatibility with vista (64). Deletesettings no longer works without a key.
e.g. DeleteSetting "Mytestprogram, "General" fails to delete anything and gives an error. but DeleteSetting "Mytestprogram, "General","keyname" works fine. It seems that key is no longer Optional in: DeleteSetting appname, section[, key] as in documentation. |
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- Go to the VB6 shortcut properties - Go to the tab Compatibility - Check the boxes: - Disable visual themes - Disable desktop composition That's it, no need to stick to Vista Basic theme or switch around constantly.
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
I changed my Vista to classic theme, and everything works fine..
Are these modifications important? |
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Re: Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista
If you mean the modificiations TheBigB listed, they simply switch the theme to Vista Classic automatically as soon as VB6 is started and also switch back to your normal theme when VB6 is closed.
So it does exactly the same as manually setting the theme, only than automatically. |
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