[dba-VB] Dev PC OS

Bill Patten bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Tue Aug 26 01:00:06 CDT 2008


I really only have a few projects in each type so certainly not qualified to 
say no problem, but so far all the problems were because I didn't know what 
I was doing. You do not need special versions for 64 bit. I haven't written 
any AX's so can't help you there but I have not had any problems installing 
those provided by others.  If it was awhile ago perhaps you were running 
into permission issues. I do every thing run as admin and everything seems 
to install ok.

I have done some testing in a  Vista 32 in a Virtual PC , mostly so I am 
able to see what my friends an clients see with threes and that seems to run 
fine as well, though It does not allow USB (except for the mouse and perhaps 
keyboard.)

Sorry I can't be of more help, but in my opinion Vista is not what caused 
your problem, excluding the permissions thing.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Maddison" <michael at ddisolutions.com.au>
To: "Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues." 
<dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Dev PC OS


Hi Bill,

Did you have any issues registering ax ddl's and ax controls?
IIRC When I tried loading VB projects it would have missing refs and I
couldn't work out how to
register them.  Maybe I was mistaken, it was a while ago!  Most were
files I'd created and maybe recompiling would
have solved the issue, but I didn't take it any further.  Didn't want to
load and compile 10 projects just to get another project
up and running when it all worked fine in XP.

Are there any issues I need to be aware of with 64bit Vista?  Do I need
64bit versions of VS or SQL tools etc?
Any issues compiling for 32 bit?  Problems with drivers?

cheers

Michael

Michael,

I am using vb6, VS 2005 and 2008 on a Vista 64 bit machine with no
problems.
I also have installed vb6 apps and they run fine as well.

You might try  uninstalling VB 6 and reinstalling, but generally if it
will run on Vista 64 it will run on any Vista.

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maddison" <michael at ddisolutions.com.au>
To: "Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues."

<dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: [dba-VB] Dev PC OS


Me again...

I have a Virtual PC with Vista installed on my old pc and found
developing on it pretty annoying
with VS2005.  I also ran into big problems with my legacy VB6 apps that
I still support.
IIRC I could not find a way to regsvr32 controls and dll's which made
VB6 dev impossible and I gave up.
Has anything changed?
Is Vista an option for Dev work or should I just stick with XP?

Sorry if this is OT.

cheers

Michael M

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