Compounding the problem is UAC or User Account Control, a necessary but much hated security measure that many large organizations require be turned on.

Updating a VB 6 application to run on Windows 7 can be a daunting challenge, especially if it relies on obscure COM or control libraries. It has been a year since the last post on this thread, and I cannot find any documentation or other posts that have resolved this issue.One of the major factors that is preventing older enterprises from leaving Windows XP is the prevalence of mission critical applications written in Visual Basic 6. Why can't Microsoft provide what the article seems to imply and everyone needs - actual RUNTIME versions of the Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files in a single download? That would allow enterpises and developers to create a deployment package

Just about any enterprise or developer! What if the source code is gone? How are enterprises with hundreds or more VB6, Office, and other solutions that used those controls supposed to update them? Etc, etc, etc? Solution, create a new setup that will generate the runtime version of the controls, then deploy the application and that will install the runtimes.Īgain if my understanding is correct, what is not taken into account with what has been provided, is that developers will have to use the VB6 IDE (not supported on Windows 7), and touch every solution to update the controls. If I am correct, what they are not clearly stating is that a developer must replace the controls in their existing What is not clearly being stated is that Microsoft has provided a set of updated DESIGN TIME version of the Extended Runtime controls. In the updated version of the application, include the updated version of the file in this cumulative update rollup for your development software.' Issue an updated version of the application to your customers. If you redistributed an ActiveX control together with an application, What do I do? Install this cumulative update rollup for your development software. 'I am developing software that contains a redistributable ActiveX control. The developer still needs to redistribute these files with the application.' Typically the VB6 IDE installed these controls to the developer machine by default. Installed from the IDE media or from to the developer machine. 'Supported Runtime Files – Extended Files to Distribute with your application: extended list of key controls, libraries, and tools that are Even the name is misleading - Visual Basic 6.0 Ms788708 is misleading and not clear because of the following detail, no where in the article does it explain that the controls provided in

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