Installing MS Visual Studio 6, with SP5 and SP6 issues.

[bitpusher10101010]

On Windows 11, I'm attempting to install Microsoft Visual Studio 6 (need VB and VC), with both SP5 and SP6. I'm getting stuck installing SP5. It runs the installation, but ends with a message that it was not successful. I believe I've tweaked the install files so that it does not check for mdac.


Has anyone done this on Windows 11?

I've done it on Windows 10. But this is a new computer I'm working with.


Any help is appreciated.

[DataMiser]

Not sure why you would need SP5 if you are planning to install SP6 just install SP6 and be done with it.

[bitpusher10101010]

Oh wow. I can go directly to SP6? Hmmm... I'll give it a go!

[Elroy]

Yeah, I install the VB6 IDE and then immediately install the SP6 cumulative update. I don't think they ever distributed a SP6 piecemeal, so if you've got SP6 it should be cumulative.

[DataMiser]

Yep been doing it that way since SP6 was released, before that I installed SP5 and before that 4 and so on, whatever the latest service pack was at the time, no issues.

[bitpusher10101010]

Would the same be true for the "Visual Studio" SP5 and SP6? I notice there are SP specific to VB, and I also seem to have SP for Visual Studio (which include VC++ etc). Thank you!

[wqweto]

There is no separate SP6 just for VB6. When you install SP6 for VS6 it auto-detects which product (VB6, VC6, InterDev, etc.) you had originally installed and patches them all.

Just this weak had to reinstall my dev machine -- a brand new Win11 on a i9-12900K 3.20GHz. Frankly not impressed by the last 10 years of progress from my previous i7-4770 3.50GHz -- this is like 8 gens ago for a meager 50-80% performance boost.

NVMe performance is impressive though - 10GB/s write and 13GB/s read speed in 1MB+ blocks.



This is a RAID 0 of two 980 PROs.

cheers,
</wqw>

[DataMiser]

The 980 Pro is a sweet piece of hardware. I built a system for a friend a while back with a Ryzen 5600x and a 980 pro and it rocks. My system is a little older Ryzen 1600 with a 960 evo. Also pretty fast but not as fast as the PCI4 interface of the 980.

[bitpusher10101010]

I've got two SP6.

Vs6sp6.exe under a folder named "MS Visual Studio 6 SP6 (June 2005)"
VB60SP6-KB957924-v2-x86-ENU.msi time stamped for 2009, which when inspected via FileExplorer\Properties under the details tab says: Cumulative Update for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 SP6 (KB957924-v2)

Confusing as hell. Can anyone suggest to me the location of one file to update all of VS6 Enterprise Edition? I think another one came out recently too.... One SP to rule them all! :-D
Thank you!

[wqweto]

You need Vs6sp6.exe from http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...d74/Vs6sp6.exe

Try the downloading the link above from the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/201602220...d74/Vs6sp6.exe

cheers,
</wqw>

[bitpusher10101010]

SP6 was updated in 2012:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=7030

And what about this one in 2021:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=50722

2012 or 2021?!?!?!? :-D
You would think I should only have to install the latest SP6, right? Can anyone confirm? Thank you.

[DataMiser]

VS6SP6 is the one you want. The rollup versions seemed to have some issues.
I had a look at the files on my system where it has been extracted and the newest files are 2004

Edit I just downloaded from the wayback link above and that is the same version I have extracted on my system and have been using for several years on different PCs

[wqweto]

SP6 was updated in 2012:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...s.aspx?id=7030

And what about this one in 2021:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=50722

2012 or 2021?!?!?!? :-D
You would think I should only have to install the latest SP6, right? Can anyone confirm? Thank you.

These are not the "latest SP6" because SP6 is Vs6sp6.exe as mentioned multiple times above.

These are security rollups i.e. some of the OCXes in Vs6sp6.exe have (obscure) security problems.

Installing these is a compatibility PITA so few people bother to patch with these and produce incompatible projects that cannot be safely shared here for instance.

cheers,
</wqw>

[bitpusher10101010]

Q1: Ok. So it is your suggestion to only install Vs6sp6.exe and forget about the Security Roll ups. Correct?

The next question then comes to ocxs that are distributed with the vb6 app. Such as comctl32.ocx comdlg32.ocx etc.
Q2: Should I just use whatever VB6 latches onto when its installed (remember I'm working on Windows 11)? Or do you prefer specific versions of these ocxs? Just want to know how folks typically work with this. Thank you again!

[wqweto]

Or do you prefer specific versions of these ocxs?

We prefer version of these OCXes that work on client machines and our clients typically don't all use Win11.

So we do some testing which work on client machine Windows versions but generally all work.

So we then prefer versions that we tested to work particularly with our products.

cheers,
</wqw>