a challenge for vb gurus out there

[johnnyboy23]

ok now that i have your attention.
im absolutly stuck on this one...........for a hair pulling
teeth grinding,computer smashing........ one week. please help me out!!!
i have taken over an application from a differnt company
when i try to run the source code from within vb
i get all sorts of errors
i have tried registering the ocx files and dll files and still come up with errors loading it
the original enviroment that it was made on was windows NT vb5 Im running win98 and vb6
i have a copy of the source code on zip file format..if someone can have a look at it and try to run it for me and
help me top get it to run then i would greatly appreciate it
more than anything in the world because its drivin me crazy!!!
please write back with your email address and i can attach the source code for you to look at for me
kind regards
john

Sure send to [email protected] and l will have a look for you. Have had similar things happen, but generally while booting up vb5 and looking at vb6 projects from NT machines......are there a lot of picture style controls in the project.....there is a known bug in vb in how it handles this....

[Gen-X]

You should try loading vb3/4 code into vb5... shocking!

Because they have upgraded several controls you get heaps of errors on loading forms simply because the references are now broken.

I would have a look at the .log files each form generates and see what it is saying... I would assume most of your errors are as a result of the upgrade differences between vb5 and vb6 as well as the differences on NT and 98. There are several DLLs that are NT specific and so all references to them will not work in 98.

Unfortunately when updating code from one version of the software to another (and changing platform as well) means there is a long and tedious process of getting everything sorted out and working... Its not easy.

Generally a software package will offer upgrade paths, but Microsoft clearly don't below in this. And don't get me started on the differing current platforms they offer. Mind you even upgrades across Unix platforms can cause concerns....case of not all unixs are equal.

[johnnyboy23]

would you believe it i have solved it on my own
some vb5 controls are not supported by vb6 so thats why i had so many errors and licencing issues comming up
i had to go through my vb cd to get the correct .dll files and register those controls too.
im pretty happy now except there are heaps of bugs in my code i dont know how the last programmer managed to compile it without any problems

Heaven forbid there are bugs.

Or

You have plenty of scope to improve the overall performance of the software.