I was unable to get my VS6 to install under Windows7 as well. I tried almost everything but it would not even go so far as to allow me to select VB.

My solution was to download and install VB6 Enterprise edition. Apparently the problem is with the Visual Studio disks. The standalone VB installs seem to work fine on Windows 7.

As to the other question VB 2012 is the current version but there is no built in way to port your VB6 projects to it. I think the last version that shipped with a converter was 2008 but the converter is not very good and in almost all cases a rewrite is required.

The one thing I did not try was to browse the VS CDs to try an locate the actual VB install. If there is a separate Setup on the disks for Vb then that may work on Windows 7. I think the issue with the VS installer is related to the MS Java engine.

In my case I have an MSDN membership so I was able to get the VB6 install from the MS website but only members can download this.