Another Visual Basic-Vista Issue

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?

have you contacted the developers of the program?

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.

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 :D