Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Sun, 01 May 2005 23:57:00 GMT

VB6 should be able to compile Standalone Applications.

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:39:00 GMT

Hey Cory,

Actually Brad says in the comments of his previous post:

"Individual applications might not."

in regards to Vb6 on Longhorn.

That VB6 might just happen to work on Longhorn some of the time, but is an *UNSUPPORTED* scenario is the real issue.

Whether the VB6 runtime is included with LongHorn OS is also part of the issue. If it is not, then talk about VB6 being supported because XP is still supported is just misleading people.

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:11:00 GMT

Hmm... I guess the following quote from Brad McCabe is "a little confusing":

"I have checked with the Development group and it [VB6 Runtime] will work with Longhorn. "

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:15:00 GMT

Oh and of course that owuld mean there is also no support for VB6 on Longhorn !!

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:14:00 GMT

Hey Frank,

Maybe I should have been more clear. Brad's blog entry does NOT tell us if Longhorn will have the VB6 runtimes on it or not. That is the primary question.

BTW: I also found Brad's post pretty mis-leading. As far as I know you CANNOT distribute the XP VB runtimes, so support for XP runtimes won't do people any good as they will need to compile against the last public available runtimes or those runtimes they have a license to distribute.

re: Will VB6 apps run on Longhorn ?

bill — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:01:00 GMT

Hey Bill, here's a post discussing this very topic

http://blogs.msdn.com/Brad_McCabe/archive/2005/03/12/394658.aspx