my mileage does vary

[Bernie]

Just installed 5436 on another machine with a better graphics card and
now can see glass for the first time on my own machine. I was impressed
with Vista before this but now I think it is the killer app that will
have users migrating in droves.

Performance is much better on this machine (P4 2.8, 1.5G RAM, Nviida FX
5600). It is very useable.

BUUUUUUUUT.... as a developer with quite a few programs written in VB6 I
can already see that I have work to do to get some of my apps to work
on Vista. Does anyone know of a web site dealing with this for VB6 apps?

 

[roman modic]

Hello!

Just installed 5436 on another machine with a better graphics card and now can see glass for the first time on my own machine. I
was impressed with Vista before this but now I think it is the killer app that will have users migrating in droves.

Performance is much better on this machine (P4 2.8, 1.5G RAM, Nviida FX 5600). It is very useable.

BUUUUUUUUT.... as a developer with quite a few programs written in VB6 I can already see that I have work to do to get some of my
apps to work on Vista. Does anyone know of a web site dealing with this for VB6 apps?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vistasupport.aspx

The Visual Basic team is committed to "It Just Works" compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows® VistaT.

The Visual Basic team's goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications that run on Windows XP will also run on Windows Vista. The Visual
Basic team is also committed to the Visual Basic 6.0 development environment running on Windows Vista. As detailed in this document,
the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of Windows Vista, which is 5 years of mainstream support
followed by five years of extended support.

http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/06/the_rise_of_net.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,102553,00.html

Regards, Roman

 

[Bernie]

Yeah I saw that but it ain't true... at least not yet. I've only tried
one of my simplest apps and it didn't work at all like it is meant to.
Probably down to activex controls that are non MS.

Hello!

Just installed 5436 on another machine with a better graphics card and now can see glass for the first time on my own machine. I
was impressed with Vista before this but now I think it is the killer app that will have users migrating in droves.

Performance is much better on this machine (P4 2.8, 1.5G RAM, Nviida FX 5600). It is very useable.

BUUUUUUUUT.... as a developer with quite a few programs written in VB6 I can already see that I have work to do to get some of my
apps to work on Vista. Does anyone know of a web site dealing with this for VB6 apps?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vistasupport.aspx

The Visual Basic team is committed to "It Just Works" compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows® VistaT.

The Visual Basic team's goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications that run on Windows XP will also run on Windows Vista. The Visual
Basic team is also committed to the Visual Basic 6.0 development environment running on Windows Vista. As detailed in this document,
the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of Windows Vista, which is 5 years of mainstream support
followed by five years of extended support.

http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/06/the_rise_of_net.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,102553,00.html

Regards, Roman

 

[Guest]

I have to agree with you Bernie. We have a VB6 program that uses an Access
database and, although it loaded fine it won't actually run. Errors on
opening that do seem to point to the fact that all of my files are set to
READ ONLY but everytime I try to change it there seems to be so much security
it won't let me. I've tried changing it to not Read Only but, no go.

Also, I'm not sure about the speed on a PIV with 1GB memory. Seems rather
slow to me.

Yeah I saw that but it ain't true... at least not yet. I've only tried
one of my simplest apps and it didn't work at all like it is meant to.
Probably down to activex controls that are non MS.

Hello!

Just installed 5436 on another machine with a better graphics card and now can see glass for the first time on my own machine. I
was impressed with Vista before this but now I think it is the killer app that will have users migrating in droves.

Performance is much better on this machine (P4 2.8, 1.5G RAM, Nviida FX 5600). It is very useable.

BUUUUUUUUT.... as a developer with quite a few programs written in VB6 I can already see that I have work to do to get some of my
apps to work on Vista. Does anyone know of a web site dealing with this for VB6 apps?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vistasupport.aspx

The Visual Basic team is committed to "It Just Works" compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows® VistaT.

The Visual Basic team's goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications that run on Windows XP will also run on Windows Vista. The Visual
Basic team is also committed to the Visual Basic 6.0 development environment running on Windows Vista. As detailed in this document,
the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of Windows Vista, which is 5 years of mainstream support
followed by five years of extended support.

http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/06/the_rise_of_net.html
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/appdev/story/0,10801,102553,00.html

Regards, Roman