VB Service Pack 6.0,...

[NotLKH]

Now, exactly what does it fix?

Should I trust it?
If MS can't even provide the proper link on this page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/do...6/default.aspx

thats supposed to answer the question,

This article contains a list of Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles about bugs that are fixed in Microsoft Visual Studio version 6.0 Service Pack 6.

Then how am I supposed to trust SP6???

[Ideas Man]

Didn't even know there was a SP6. Thought they'd focus on VS.NET more than that.

[BodwadUK]

I have it installed at home and seems no different.

Says it fixes many more obscure things such as linker errors when compiling very large projects etc etc

I havent installed it at work just in case

Time will tell.

[Ideas Man]

Trying to download here, very slow, must be popular or somthing, same thing happened with XP SP2 RC1, took ages when they first released it, flew after a day or two.

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Ideas Man
Didn't even know there was a SP6. Thought they'd focus on VS.NET more than that.

Maybe they're trying to show that they haven't abandoned VS6... yet.

[yrwyddfa]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];834001

Thats should be the ticket . . .

[carolyn]

I usually update user's application by distributing exe only. If I use SP6, can the exe generated with VB6 SP6 run on systems that was installed with VB6 SP5? Or a new distribution is required?

[Foxer]

Service packs for VB6 generally fix problems with the IDE, sometimes DAO/ODBC drivers, bugs with custom controls and "benign" things like that. It rarely affects the operating system. This makes things fully cross-compatible in most cases.

You only strike problems if the SP introduces new controls, new dll's, remove com functionality and the like. They would have little reason to do such things so you'd be safe to use SP6, create EXE's and distribute them. If the app starts behaving strangely, make a complete package and re-install it on the client and that should fix any problems.

Does anyone know when that SP was released?

[Ideas Man]

29th March this year.