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Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs?

From	"Nobody in particular" <nobody@nowhere.INVALID>
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Subject	Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs?
Date	2013-10-11 13:04 -0700
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"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote in message news:l2vice$t15$1@dont-email.me...

>| Remember the late 90s when "Black Belt" ninja hardcore power VB COM API
> tricks were all the rage?
> | Which ones screwed you over bad when it came time to get your code working
> with Windows 7 and 8?
> |
>
>     The only problems I know of with Windows Vista/7/8 are
> with inline assembly code that conflicts with DEP. Executable
> code from data memory doesn't work. But there are workarounds
> even for that. VB6 is still the most widely suppoerted tool
> on Windows.

Thanks. I'm looking at a mixed Access 97 and Visual Basic 5.0 project that's
been working fine on Windows XP Pro and apparently hasn't even been changed
or recompiled in the last ten years. I'm worried about possible issues in
migrating it to Windows 7 or 8.1 when Microsoft finally drops support for XP
in April. Is there a writeup anywhere for the current best practices for
"Classic" VB? The last time I did any serious work with VB 5/6, there were
issues with how Class_Terminate events interacted with error handling. Have
these been fixed, or are there commonly accepted workarounds? Will Access 97
and VB5 code work in Win7/8, or do I need to migrate to a newer version of
Access and VB6 or possibly some other language and database engine?

Thanks again.

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Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs? "Nobody in particular" <nobody@nowhere.INVALID> - 2013-10-07 17:01 -0700
  Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-10-07 20:06 -0400
    Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs? "Nobody in particular" <nobody@nowhere.INVALID> - 2013-10-11 13:04 -0700
      Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2013-10-11 18:07 -0400
      Re: Which Hardcore Black Belt Ninja PowerVB tricks to avoid at all costs? Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2013-10-21 17:42 -0600

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