I am having problems installing VB 6.0 (Enterprise Edition) in my laptop(Vista) it says "compatibility issues". Can I install VB 6.0 in vista?
anlmember437 0 Newbie Poster
AndreRet 526 Senior Poster
Yes you can. When the install screen appear, install it as administrator only. (Right click, select 'Run As Administrator') As soon as the installation is finished, upgrade to the newest service pack and all should be fine. The biggest culprit in developing an application in Vista is to use the "SendMessage" api's in your application (code), they will not run...
Good luck.
anlmember437 commented: Thank you Andre +0
vb5prgrmr 143 Posting Virtuoso
What do you mean SendMessage API will not work on vista? Or are you talking about sendkeys?
AndreRet 526 Senior Poster
SendMessage AND SendKeys as in -
Dim Tmp
Tmp = SendMessage(Combo1.hWnd, CB_SHOWDROPDOWN, 1, ByVal 0&)
'OR
If KeyAscii = 13 Then
SendKeys "{tab}"
End If vb5prgrmr 143 Posting Virtuoso
I've got no problems with SendMessage on my Vista Home machine. In fact, it is working right now to slap down script error messages from the web browser control in another application...
AndreRet 526 Senior Poster
Again I am sleeping vb5, only on Sendkeys, which took me a while to figure out. I am currently using
Dim WshShell As Object
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If Not IsNumeric(txtSickLeavePerMonth.Text) Then
WshShell.SendKeys "{BackSpace}"
End IfIf I remember correctly I had a problem with SendMessage was was a fault in my code, corrected that and it is working fine since then.
For anyone else following this, the link below covers most of the common problems on running on Vista and Win7 -
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=2807202#post2807202
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