Visual Studio 6.0 + WinXP Possible?


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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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