Quote Originally Posted by 7edm View Post
Shouldn't the titel of this topic change to something like "Warning: IE10 breaks loading of Common Controls in VB6 IDE" and be made sticky?
I'm not sure we've truly figured the whole thing out yet.

Some people who have earlier versions of Office installed and got a patch for it last year will have MSCTOMCTL.OCX 2.1 installed even if they've never installed IE10. But they'll still have MSCOMCT2.OCX 2.0 on their machines.

Others have IE10 installed and both of these libraries will have 2.1 interfaces.

As far as testing old programs goes, you need one you know has been compiled ealier against the old (2.0) interfaces and make sure it still runs with the 2.1 libraries installed. Recompiling tells you nothing because if you have the Upgrade Controls option checked in the Project (as everyone normally would all the time) then you've obscured the issue.

Eventually this might end up in one of the FAQ threads, but those have become difficult to find information in and often have small irregularities (i.e. errors).

A lot of these "using VB6 in the post-Win9x era" topics need to be gathered, cleaned up, and published at a web site with a different format. Forums don't cut it because what people need are "how to" articles written that cover the what, the why, and the what to do in a consistent format. A discussion forum would still be good to help fix errors in the articles and get new reports to prompt updates and new articles as things change, but a forum isn't the best format for documentation.