hareball82 Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Hey, it's almost time for me to head back to college (i've been on co-op for almost 5 months now), and i will need to install Visual Studio for classes. I've always had it installed before, but that was on WIn2k. So, my question is: Are Visual Studio 6.0 and WinXP a good combo, i.e.: will they work together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underscorebios Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 i have vb6sp5 installed in xp although i don't work much in it anymore but what little i did so far i've had no trouble with... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Zollo Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 I have Visual Studio 6.0 installed on this comp and it works pretty good. It doesn't support the new visual styles of Windows XP, but there's a way around this... Lets just say you want Visual Basic to support the new visual styles. Go into your Program FilesMicrosoft Visual StudioVB98 folder and you will see a file called vb6.exe. Open up notepad and copy this code into it. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="Microsoft.Windows.Shell.shell32" type="win32" /> Windows Shell type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /> Save the file as "vb6.exe.manifest" and place it in the same folder as vb6.exe. Now open Visual Basic and you will see the new XP visual styles are now applied. You can do this with any Visual Studio program. Just rename it ***.exe.manifest, replacing *** with the name of the program without the exe extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenSBNC Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 I also am running Visual Studio 6 under XP with no problems. In fact XP fixed the problems I was having with Visual Studio randomly crashing under ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hareball82 Posted January 26, 2002 Author Share Posted January 26, 2002 thanks a bunch guys! i was afraid to try it...i just spent an hour+ configing / tweaking my setup to get it just the way i want it... perhaps i'll make a ghost image first ;) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comet Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 6 works, but 7 works better :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayp6969 Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 where can u get or download the windows components cd to install Visual Studio .NET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comet Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 no warez talk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted January 26, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 26, 2002 that dont sound like warez to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comet Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Originally posted by jayp6969 where can u get or download the windows components cd to install Visual Studio .NET ^ thats warez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrZoidberg Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 Originally posted by jayp6969 where can u get or download the windows components cd to install Visual Studio .NET You need to subscribe to MSDN. Then you can download every single disc, in ISO form or as an extractable archive. Alternatively, wait a few weeks and buy the retail version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comet Posted January 26, 2002 Share Posted January 26, 2002 msdn ent = around 4grand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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