Visual Studio 6.0 SP5 setup on Vista Beta 2 (5384)?

Visual Studio 6.0 SP5 setup on Vista Beta 2 (5384)?

• caplars

  GuideX,

  You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!. How in the world did you figure that one out My Goodness.

  That worked like a charm. Amazing.

  Thanks a million. Just made my day.

  
  

• myway

  Cheers....have it running now...got round it in a different way....copied entire visual studio 6 folder from xp and altered registry HKEY_Local_Machine\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6 from destination C: to X: where I have Vista....Had to install MDAC sp7 to get Access to work
  
  

• JuQiang

  Guidex, you are the man, this is what I've been waiting for - thanks!

  
  

• Huy Nguyen

  Visual studio 6.0 is not supported on Win Vista.
  
  

• McBain

  GuideX I think we all owe you a beer or 5.
  
  

• Conzo

  You'll need a non-Vista machine and copy over or use the trick I mentioned, until someone can figure out what the SP5/SP6 setup process is using to determine whether MDAC is installed. I've tried using filemon and regmon utilities from www.sysinternals.com but have never been able to figure out what it's checking.

  Can someone in Microsoft with access to the source code to SP5/SP6 setup tell me what specifically it's checking for (e.g. a specific file, version info, registry key etc) then at least we can put those things in place temporarily before installing.

  
  

• Thomo

  Totally untrue - the support on Vista has been committed to by Microsoft until March of 2008 

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx

  I know for a fact that it runs perfectly on Vista as I have run it successfully on many previous builds of Vista (as upgrades of an XP machine).  I'm asking how I can get a clean build of Vista to allow me to install SP5.  

  
  

• Maciej

  Ted,

  Did you get any more info about this I am running into the same issue. I am digging now but if you got a workaround from another source it would be appriciated.

  Glen

  
  

• KNLReddy

  Here they are (each key is followed by the value name you need to change)

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0]
  InstallDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup]
  VsCommonDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Developer Network Library - Visual Studio 6.0a]
  ProductDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Basic]
  ProductDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual C++]
  ProductDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual InterDev]
  ProductDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe]
  ProductDir

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Studio]
  ProductDir

  
  

• skg1063

  Can you be more exact as I have run into a brick wall when trying to install vb6....Are you sure these are the correct registry changes
  
  

• Pixelgrease

  Yes, I did - I even went so far as to file a Vista bug with the Microsoft Beta Client utility (you should do the same: get it at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkId=43655 )

  See:

  http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=82726&SiteID=4

  (note: you must be a member of the Vista Beta program to view the above bug)

  The response that I got is that Microsoft "won't fix" it.   You can vote on this suggestion if you disagree.

  Based on this description:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vistasupport.aspx

  they should at least provide support for the IDE until at least March of 2008.  

  The workaround for now is to use another machine (an XP machine) to install the service pack, by using a mapped network share to your Vista drive (change some registry keys, there are several of them, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0 and 6.0\Setup\ (and all keys in subfolders) that are pointing to your own install on XP to the network drive) e.g. map a drive on your XP machine to your Vista machine (e.g. M: ) then change those registry keys to point to your M: copy of Visual Studio. Then install the service pack on your XP machine, and your Vista machine will get updated.  Don't forget to change the registry keys back to C: and then reinstall under XP so your XP machine is not broken. 

  
  

• hawkdriver

  I'm having the same problem with Visual Studio 6. I get as far as installing service pack 5 and it says I need to install MDAC 2.5, then I install MDAC 2.8 and it installs ok, but I get the same problem. It's horrible, I use Visual Studio 6 for everything.. Been trying to switch to .net, but the languages are too different.
  
  

• Steve Birrell

  So I know there was the whole 'copy your files over from XP' but i wasn't satisfied with that, so I did some digging, and figured out ... it checks for mdac which makes it fail, but we're going to remove that check for mdac.
  
  how to make service pack 5 install on vista beta 2 without another pc!
  
  Tutorial:
  Step 1) Open C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf with 'Notepad.exe'
  Step 2) Replace the following line
  
  13 Group 28 36 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43
  
  -with-
  
  13 Group 28 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43
  
  Step 3) Delete the following lines leaving only a carriage return where it was
  
  36 Depend "27 : 37"
  37 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC"
  
  Step 4) Save and close C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf
  Step 5) Run setupsp5.exe
  
  I would offer a download link to the fixed file, but I believe that may be a copyright violation.
  
  guideX
  
  PS> Please take note that I am the first living human to ever run visual studio 6 service pack 5 successfully from vista  
  
  
  
  

• JohnnyWing

  guideX

  Thanks a lot, we have confuse it for a whille.

  
  
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