running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by Jim Fergus » Sun, 01 Feb 1998 04:00:00



Quote:>Can I run apps developed in vb 4 on the same pc with apps developed in
>vb5?  

For the most part, yes.

Quote:>Do the runtimes conflict if I try to do this?

Not the VB run-times. The conflict you're most likely to hit is with
the comctl32.ocx if you're using that.

-- Jim Ferguson, FMS
   http://www.fmsinc.com

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by Daniel Caro » Sun, 01 Feb 1998 04:00:00


Well Well Well, how the heck do I fix that without re-installing the whole
VB4???


Quote:>>Can I run apps developed in vb 4 on the same pc with apps developed in
>>vb5?

>For the most part, yes.

>>Do the runtimes conflict if I try to do this?

>Not the VB run-times. The conflict you're most likely to hit is with
>the comctl32.ocx if you're using that.

>-- Jim Ferguson, FMS
>   http://www.fmsinc.com


 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by Jim Fergus » Sun, 01 Feb 1998 04:00:00


Quote:>Well Well Well, how the heck do I fix that without re-installing the whole
>VB4???

There should be an MSKB article on MS's web site that discusses the
VB4/VB5 compatibility issues.

-- Jim Ferguson, FMS
   http://www.fmsinc.com

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by ITP » Thu, 05 Feb 1998 04:00:00


Well I've done the impossible then. I have VB5 and VB4 16 and 32 on the same
machine and they work fine. To make things worse, I have also (for some
reason I've forgot) source safe 4.0 on this PC too.

Ilkka


>Very true!  I've been struggling with this for months.  Re-installing VB4
>won't work.  I had to re-install _Windows_!!!  Honestly, the only solution
I
>found was two development machines.  Ugly and expensive.

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by ITP » Thu, 05 Feb 1998 04:00:00


If you have problems with COMCTL32.OCX, get the latest version of it
(version 5.01.4319). It should resolve the compatibility issues.

Ilkka


Quote:>>Well Well Well, how the heck do I fix that without re-installing the whole
>>VB4???

>There should be an MSKB article on MS's web site that discusses the
>VB4/VB5 compatibility issues.

>-- Jim Ferguson, FMS
>   http://www.fmsinc.com

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by ITP » Thu, 05 Feb 1998 04:00:00



Quote:>Are you creating setup packages with VB4-32 and installing them on other
>systems?  VB4-32 should run in development with VB5, but you will run into
>trouble if you try to support other systems running VB4-32 applications.

No, since we have dedicated PC's where we create the release disks. I
*think* there Vb4 and VB5
are separated but I'm not sure. The development environment is stable with
both.
I'd be very interested to know what kind of problems you are talking about,
so that we can avoid them
in the future.

Ilkka

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by Rebecca Riorda » Fri, 06 Feb 1998 04:00:00


Are you running VB4 16 or 32?  I was trying to run VB 4 16bit, not 32 bit.
To be honest, I wound up re-installing Windows because it was easier than
sorting out which controls were getting messed up.  And I had an ancient
laptop anyway...

    - Rebecca.




>>Are you creating setup packages with VB4-32 and installing them on other
>>systems?  VB4-32 should run in development with VB5, but you will run into
>>trouble if you try to support other systems running VB4-32 applications.

>No, since we have dedicated PC's where we create the release disks. I
>*think* there Vb4 and VB5
>are separated but I'm not sure. The development environment is stable with
>both.
>I'd be very interested to know what kind of problems you are talking about,
>so that we can avoid them
>in the future.

>Ilkka

 
 
 

running vb 4 and vb 5 simultaneously

Post by ITP » Fri, 06 Feb 1998 04:00:00


We are using both, since we still must support both 16 and 32-bit apps. I
hope we finish the
porting of all 16-bit apps soon. Maybe we are bit lucky since we have an
internal rule to
not use VBX or OCX whenever possible (bypassing with workarounds). The
second
good thing is that we use NTWS everywhere.

Ilkka


>Are you running VB4 16 or 32?  I was trying to run VB 4 16bit, not 32 bit.
>To be honest, I wound up re-installing Windows because it was easier than
>sorting out which controls were getting messed up.  And I had an ancient
>laptop anyway...

>    - Rebecca.