I think this is the experience of most people who have installed VS6 AFTER VS2003 - you will run into a couple of annoyances:
1. The re-association of file types 2. A possible redirection of the MSDN help files. 3. One colleague reported a problem with MS Office 2000, which required a re-install of Office (no details on this - sorry). The former is mostly a problem with C++ libraries, tools and general programming utilities. The second is easily fixed with a re-install of one or the other Help files. I would recommend that the latest Service Pack (SP6) for Visual Studio 6 is installed. And my experience (and that of colleagues) is limited to systems running Win2K and WinXP, with all Windows Updates (including those for MDAC) in place and working well. Of course, WinXP is 'smarter' in protecting essential DLLs from being overwritten by older versions. Win98 and WinSE are pretty poor at dealing with so-called DLL Hell. (Forget Win95; NT4 - ?) Visual Source Safe (latest issue: VSS 6.0d) has some other issues (probably not of concern) Lastly (and probably not of interest) - VS6 SP6 can cause a problem with IIS - see article 842329 at < http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842329 >. Also see the "Install Instructions for Service Pack 6" at < http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates/sp/vs6/sp6/install/defau lt.aspx > Sorry this is so long. Ian Thomas GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia -----Original Message----- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 6:46 AM To: MapInfo-L Subject: MI-L Mixing VB and VB.NET on the same machine? I've got to support some MapInfo integrated mapping code that's coming my way real soon now, but the only machine I have free that has enough horsepower and disk space already has .NET Visual Studio already installed on it. Does anybody know if I can install VB 6.0 on that machine without hosing up the Visual Studio .NET installation? - Bill Thoen --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 16100 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.9 - Release Date: 13/04/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.11 - Release Date: 14/04/2005
