PBP and VB6 USB templates

[Ioannis]

I totally agree!

Who needs USB3 to transfer 1kb of data? And the money paid of course is a very good reason!

Ioannis

[Demon]

I do remember something about an executable I needed in order to distribute my VB6 executables (can't remember which one). But it came with the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio, don't know how I'm going to get a hold of that thing.

I don't like bootleg stuff either, has to be legit.

Robert

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi,

Also the new free IDE do not produce executables to distribute.

Sure it does, it's normal behaviour is to create an installer for your project, that you can distribute, which will check if the target system has the needed files (like the .net framework you're targeting etc) but if you don't need that it's pretty easy to simply "extract" the bare .exe file. Last time I did it was on Visual Studio 2005 Express and I'm just now fooling around with the 2013 version and it seems to work the same.

/Henrik.

[Ioannis]

Well, I found that the new Visual Studio after VB6, did not had the ability to create an installer but had something different. I suppose as you describe Henrik. I do not have much experience so cannot say more, but once that I tried this beast, it made its tricks and somewhere deep in my hard disk, it copied an exe file and put a shortcut in StartMenu.

Had to search too much to find where the exe file was. Anyway, it is too complicated in general for me.

Ioannis

[PJALM]

Wow very nice to finally see this.

Be warned any apps made in VB6 are not gonna work in newer versions of Windows.

[Ioannis]

Are you sure about this?

I think you mean te IDE of VB6 will not work in newer windows (Vista and newer).

The exe and installers work just fine.

Ioannis

[Demon]

...
Be warned any apps made in VB6 are not gonna work in newer versions of Windows.

I'd be curious as to why. I don't see why an app wouldn't work as long as all required components are included.

Robert


EDIT: Hmm, googled and found several links on the subject.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj133828.aspx

[PJALM]

I apologize then, I was under the impression they don't work as I had many issues trying to get mine working so I gave up. But I am also using windows 10 not windows 8 so that could be why.