Visual Basic support

[Michael Daly]

What version of VB is supported by WindowsXP?

I have written a small VB6 app which has problems running
under WinXP. It works fine under Win98, WinNT4 and W2K.

If I recompile it with VB.NET should this work?

Thanks.

Michael Daly

 

[Tim]

I'm running VB 6 SP5 on my Windows XP Pro computer. No problems at all, as well
as the compiled programs have no problems either.

What problems are you having under WinXP?

Also, you might wanna check out the microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
group......

Tim

 

[Tim]

No problem.

You are correct, it does not support the Visual Themes. BUT, you can manually
force it to use the
themes by including a Manifest file with your application. Say the EXE name is
"MyProg.exe". Just
create a Manifest file by the name of "MyProg.exe.Manifest" and place it in the
same directory. I
could even walk you through "hacking" the executable file and including this
information without the
need for a manifest file.

For VB.NET, see the following MSDN article on how to enable XP Themes. It's not
automatic, you
must tell it to do so.... but it can be done without including a Manifest file,
or hacking the EXE to add
the information to it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...msApplicationClassEnableVisualStylesTopic.asp


Also here is another handy page for the VB.Net apps you would create: Courtesy
of someone
in the microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb group
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/tools/default.asp

Tim