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  1. July 7th, 2011, 11:39 AM #1
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    Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    Hi friends!

    Sincesome weeks my VB6.0 ( I confess I dont use it very often so I dont really know when this maybe has happened ) shows a strange way to start the IDE
    When I want to use it it always starts Windows Installer and during that installer is running the splash screen does not vanish from screen and the project is not loaded.

    I need to wait until the installer shows that he wants to install VB net 2005 and then I can click to abort installation and the VB 6.0 loads the project.

    So why this is always trying to install VB 2005 and how to get rid of that unnecessary and time consuming effort.

    I have Visual studio 2008 on that machine and in former times there had been Visual studio 2005 installed on that machine too. But now I dont need it so I removed it years ago. (this cannot be the point beause VB6.0 has worked for years without any problems after deinstalling Visual studio 2005. ) This problems seems me to be there since a very short time, maybe after an MS update ?? Anyone knows that effect?

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  2. July 7th, 2011, 08:33 PM #2
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    I haven't seen this particular behavior with the VB6 IDE though I have seen similar with other products. It sounds like the installation (VS6) is missing a component somewhere which is causing it to fire up the Windows installer. I'd suggest you remove VS6 altogether, do a clean up with CCleaner and re-install VS6 from scratch.

    You might also want to get a copy of the Microsoft Windows Installer Clean-Up utility (Google it and you should find it).

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  3. July 7th, 2011, 11:13 PM #3
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    Weird, perhaps something in your file associations is pointed to VB2005.
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  4. July 8th, 2011, 01:34 AM #4
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    Happened to me once as well. I just removed and re installed VB 6, then it worked fine. I honestly do not know why it happens. I can only also speculate that it has something to do with either a service pack that is needed or, because of a confusion between VB.NET and VB 6. BTW, I have VB6, VB 2003, VB 2008, and VB 2010 on my PC.

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  6. July 8th, 2011, 11:32 AM #5
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    Pretty sure new versions of VS2005+ break VB6, but a re-install (or even REPAIR) usually works.
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  7. July 8th, 2011, 11:57 AM #6
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    I have VB6 and VS2005 installed on one PC and one VM no problems on either of them also have VB6 and VS2008 on a PC and a VM also no problems on either. Same with VS2010 and VS2003.

    The only issues I have ran into is when I try to install VS2003 and VS2005 on the same machine. Haven't tried 2008 or 2010 with either of the others 2003+ but all work with VB6. In the case of 2003 and 2005 I was not able to develop applications for mobile devices under 2005 until I completely uninstalled 2003 and then reinstalled 2005. I did get a message during install of 2005 that there could be issues if I did not uninstall 2003 first.

    In most cases VB6 was installed prior to the later versions, works with SP5 and SP6, did not not try it before installing the SP
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    Re: Strange behaviour when VB 6 IDE is started

    Quote Originally Posted by HanneSThEGreaT View Post
    BTW, I have VB6, VB 2003, VB 2008, and VB 2010 on my PC.
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    This proggy then PreReads the file and selects one of the installed VS versions to open the file...

    Problem with this is ... If you uninstall the VS version who's Selector app is the one installed ... It has a tendancy to break ...
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