Writing VB6 code in Windows 7

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Richard B - 30 Jun 2009 20:39 GMT

This may have been discussed before, but I can't find it. So I
apologize.
Has anyone had experience writing VB6 with SP6 in Windows 7 ???
What about running a VB6 app in Windows 7 ??

Richard

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MikeD - 01 Jul 2009 02:36 GMT

> This may have been discussed before, but I can't find it. So I
> apologize.
> Has anyone had experience writing VB6 with SP6 in Windows 7 ???
> What about running a VB6 app in Windows 7 ??

Been some discussion. I suggest you search the newsgroups at http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en.

However, as long as you follow the "rules" , VB6 apps should run fine under Windows 7. The "rules" are basically the same as they've
been since WinXP. The difference is that your app can't assume it's running with Administrator privileges. So, don't do things that
a non-admin can't do, like trying to save files to certain folders. Save to folders like the user's Documents folder or Application
Data folder. To get these folders, use the SHGetSpecialFolderPath API function to get them.

Those 2 questions are rather vague though. If there's a *specific* issue or question you have about VB6 or VB6 apps under Win7,
then you really need to ask about that.

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axtens - 02 Jul 2009 04:46 GMT

> > This may have been discussed before, but I can't find it. So I
> > apologize.
> > Has anyone had experience writing VB6 with SP6 in Windows 7 ???
> > What about running a VB6 app in Windows 7 ??

I've been doing it for some weeks. Is there something specific you're
concerned about?

Kind regards,
Bruce.

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JohnV@nn - 22 Aug 2009 02:10 GMT

> > > This may have been discussed before, but I can't find it. So I
> > > apologize.
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> Kind regards,
> Bruce.

Hello,
I'm running VB6 on Windows 7 release version, and everything appears
to work except for one thing: So far we haven't been able to get any
VB6 code to read a value from the registry. We have some legacy VB6
code that uses windows script host to read a string value, but this
throws an error "the system could not find the file specified." Now a
VB.NET program on the same machine can read the registry fine.

We thought we'd create a workaround by writing a VB.NET assembly to
get registry values, and register it for COM interop so we could call
it from VB6 code. But this didn't work either: it always returns an
empty string when called from VB6 code, but it returns the correct
value when called from VB.NET code. So something is definitely fishy
when it comes to VB6 + Win 7 + registry.

Does anyone knows a solution to this?

Thanks,
John

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Jan Hyde - 24 Aug 2009 12:49 GMT

"JohnV@nn" <jmvannoy@gmail.com>'s wild thoughts were
released on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:10:52 -0700 (PDT) bearing
the following fruit:

>> > > This may have been discussed before, but I can't find it. So I
>> > > apologize.
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>
>Does anyone knows a solution to this?

You would need to post the code you are using.

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Jan Hyde

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Stephen7405 - 09 Sep 2009 23:27 GMT

I am successfully reading Registry Key vales in VB6/Win7. Here's a sample of
code:

Dim WshShell As Object
Dim strRootKey As String
Dim strVariable As String

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strRootKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyApps\MyApp\TestKey"
On Error Resume Next
Err.Clear
strVariable = Trim(WshShell.RegRead(strRootKey))

If Err.Number = 0 And strVariable <> "" Then
'ALL is OK
Else
'NO VALUE RETRIVED FROM REGISTRY
End If

Hope this gives you some help

> "JohnV@nn" <jmvannoy@gmail.com>'s wild thoughts were
> released on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:10:52 -0700 (PDT) bearing
[quoted text clipped - 32 lines]
> --
> Jan Hyde

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Writing VB6 code in Windows 7