upgrading my windows98 to XP... will this effect VB 6.0??

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Leonard

I am a school teacher and just found out that the lab
where I teach VB 6.0 is being upgraded from windows 98 to
windows xp. Is this going to effect VB 6.0? Is there
anything that I need to do differently to load it?
 
I have been developing software using VB since version
1.0. I had no problems installing Visual Studio 6.0
(which contains VB6.0) on XP and using it. You have to
be careful distributing software compiled and packaged on
an XP machine if it is intended for use on a Win98
machine though. When you try to install it, there may be
a query from the 98 machine concerning files newer than
ones already on the machine. If you click 'Yes' and
allow the XP-compiled software to replace these files, 98
may NOT WORK properly and you'll have to reinstall 98.

I always keep a Win98 machine around with an installed
VB6.0 compiler so I can distribute to both operating
systems. Just be sure that you own TWO versions of VB6.0 -
one for each machine.
 
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