Windows 7 Compatibility for VB6 Apps

These articles show how to make your VB6 apps compatible with Windows Vista, 7 and its UAC.

Modifications Required for VB6 Applications to Work on Vista/7 [Visit]

SysFolders - Code to get system folder location [Visit]

Where to put data under Vista? [Visit]

Help Authoring Tools & Code

These tools help you make helpfiles for your applications and controls.

HTML Help COM Assistant - Nice tool to automatically generate HTML Help documentation for your COM/ActiveX component. [Visit Website]

HTML Help Workshop - Freeware from microsoft to generate HTML Help Files. [Visit Website]

Help Visual Basic Class Module - Complete VB6 Module to work with HTML Helpfiles [Visit Website]

VB6 on Windows 8

VB6 Will Work on Windows 8 :D




Summary:

• No specific mention of VB6 or other legacy technology.
• Win32 and COM still available.
  
• VB6 Runtimes wont be there in Windows 8.
• Windows 8 will run all application that ran on Windows 7.
• x86 application wont run on ARM based Windows 8, including VB6 Apps.
• They are going to provide compilers to C, C++ developers to compile for Arm Windows 8.

Windows 8:

• Available for x86, x64, ARM
• Hardware requirement same as Windows 7
• Target of running all application that ran on Windows 7
• Includes new UI style called Metro
• Includes new Metro UI style Touch based Desktop (Along with Old Desktop)
• Metro application are written in HTML5, JavaScript, XAML (.NET)
• New APIs (WinRT) for Metro apps callable from JavaScript similar to desktop gadget engine.

Update:
VB6 Runtimes are included in the Alpha Release.

Screenshot of VB6 running on Windows 8.

Remove Icon from VB6 Form

Many times we set icon on form which we dont want, and there is no option to remove, you can only replace it. But sometimes we need to let the default VB icon remain like when we are setting the icon using code. To remove icon from VB6 form, open your form .frm file in notepad and under " Begin VB.Form Form1 " look for " Icon = "Form1.frx":0000 "

Remove this line and save, open your project and VB6 will display an error, now save the project. This will remove the icon.

Note: Be careful while editing files using notepad.

Tools: Add-In to make Console Apps using VB6

The 'PowerVB Console Application Add-In' provides an integrated mechanism for turning a Standard Exe application into a console application.

Using this add-in to generate a Windows Console application is equivalent to running 'EditBin /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE MyExe.Exe' from the command line.
 

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Chart Control for VB6

RMChart is ActiveX control to add a various range of Modern looking business charts (Bar, Line, Pie/Donut, XY scatter) to your applications. It comes with RMCDesigner, using this tool you can create chart without coding. You Also print your charts or save them as .jpg, .png files. License: Freeware

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Sending Email From VB6 App

Email Sending UserControl - This UserControl is for sending emails with attachments via SMTP server, there is no dependencies like Winsock OCX, CDO, MAPI, Outlook.
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