Michael Maddison
michael at ddisolutions.com.au
Tue Aug 26 02:30:00 CDT 2008
Thanks all, I'm installing Vista64 now. If I run into problem I'll either run virtual XP or keep a machine loaded with my legacy bits. cheers Michael M 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 _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.9/1634 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 8:48 PM _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.9/1634 - Release Date: 8/25/2008 8:48 PM