Visual Dev Studio 6.0 compatibility

[Med]

Hi,
I have visual dev studio 6.0 installed on my win 98 machine. I have now
bought a new pc with XP home edition. Does anybody knows is there
compatibility issues on installing visual dev on a winXP machine?
Thanks a lot for reading.

 

[frodo]

works fine. just install sp5 for studio, and sp6 for sourcesafe.

if you want to develop apps specifically for XP you'll need to get the
latest Platform SDK in order to use the lastest xp-specific API's (theme
stuff mostly), but it's not absolutely necessary. P-SDK is no longer
avail as a download at MSDN, you need to order the CD (less than $10).
Directions at MSDN tell how to order and install the P-SDK and have VS6
reference it properly (pretty easy). Once you've got it installed there's
an ActiveX tool that can do web-updates for it.

VS6's lifetime is about to end tho, .NET is here to stay I'm afraid.

 

[David Candy]

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

 

[frodo]

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

yes, that web-update tool is still avail, but the full P-SDK package is
not, you need to order the CD. don't even think about using the above w/
a dial-up connection!

 

[David Candy]

It's been this way for years. It's the full latest PSDK.

 

[d2004xx]

Hi,
I have visual dev studio 6.0 installed on my win 98 machine. I have now
bought a new pc with XP home edition. Does anybody knows is there
compatibility issues on installing visual dev on a winXP machine?
Thanks a lot for reading.

It works, I tried before.

 

[frodo]

re: platform SDK full install.

I said that you can no longer get the full install, but you can. I had
been trying to access it using Mozilla, with no luck; it appeared as if
the link was simply gone, all I could find was the "order the cd" page.
But, if you use IE it is still there (tho only the Feb 03 release).

I should have remmembered that the MSDN site only works "right" w/ IE,
silly me!