Shims and manifest settings are two completely different things.
What's more similar to shims are "compatibility settings". In fact, compatibility settings are nothing but a specified "group of shims".
However, for a VB6 compiled executable, I've never seen any need for any shims nor compatibility settings. But, there is occasionally a need for some manifest settings.
Regarding the IDE, for optimal functionality, a few shims do help. But, using a full set of compatibility settings often does more harm than good. Basically, that's what this thread is about.





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