Visual Basic on Windows Vista x64

[asdftt123]

Hey guys,

I'm having a ton of trouble installing VB 6.0 on my Vista x64 machine. Are there any available VB clients that will allow me to view and edit some basic VB code? Thanks!

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[Safeway]

Yea, the newest version.

 

[KoolAidKid]

2 things:

1) Use a more recent version of VB
2) We have a programming subforum

 

[Aluvus]

This is not the programming forum.

 

[imported_Dhaval00]

What kind of errors are you receiving? Some details would help.

 

[brandonb]

VB6 was written in 1998, and that installer has used the MS Java VM, which hasn't been updated or used in years. Once you get other apps install, that conflicts with the VB6 installer and you'll never get it installed.

If you have a FRESH format if your OS, you may get lucky and get the VB6 installed, but if you install other apps first, you won't get it installed. I ran into that problem before at a place I worked and installed VB6 after installing office, etc, and could never get VB6 installed, but once I changed the order of installation, then it worked.

It's better to just use VB.Net Express 2008 from Microsoft.

 

[MrChad]

It's not supported on 64-bit versions of Vista or Windows 7, but people have been able to run it successfully. Try running the setup program as an administrator, and run the VB6 executable in XP compatibility mode.

Your best bet may be to run an XP virtual machine in VMWare and use that as a dedicated VB6 development sandbox.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Your best bet may be to run an XP virtual machine in VMWare and use that as a dedicated VB6 development sandbox.

That's what I would suggest as well.

 

[MGMorden]

Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition is available. It works fine on Vista 64-bit and is free to download. It does most of what the hobbyist level programmer would want to do. The only major limitation I've found with it is that it doesn't provide the tools to work with remote or ODBC databases. You're basically limited to a local database file with it. Other than that though, it's a nice environment to learn on.

 

[sourceninja]

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ is also around and pretty good.

 

[Train]

VB6, despite being eclipsed by a far better VB.Net, will unfortunately end up like COBOL, and live on forever due to the sheer mass of code that was written in it.