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Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit

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R C Nesbit presented the following explanation :
> Karl E. Peterson spoke:
>>> 
>>> 1st major problem:
>>> 
>>> SendKeys "{Home}+{End}"
>>> 
>>> results in "Permision denied" error ????
>> 
>> That's about the worst of the breakages, language wise.  Here's one 
>> fix, and an article that describes it:
>
> Thanks.
>
> Well here's another odd one.
>
> Some of my apps interface to Sage accounts.
> To do this you need the appropriate SdoEng_nnn.tlb file adding to 
> project references.
>
> The SdoEng_nnn.dll registered OK with regrsrv32, and was installed, 
> along with the .tlb file in System32
>
> Project Explorer for this project was looking in my old machine path, 
> so couldn't find it.
> [Browse] to the correct location, and it still doesn't see it! not 
> listed as a file at all! 
>
> The only way I could fix it was to copy the .tlb file to the projects 
> own folder, then it worked.
>
> BUT.....
>
> Every time I saved, closed, and ere-opened the project, it reverted 
> back to MISSING and looking in the old path.
>
> I had to open the .vbp file in Notepad and edit the path manually to 
> get it to work.

That doesn't sound like a language break, per se.  But the handling of 
"special folders" in Win7x64 is truly perverse from some perspectives.  
Software that's not written with an understanding of "the rules" will 
definitely <cough> have issues.

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Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-07-01 17:05 +0100
  Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-07-01 17:32 +0100
  Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-07-01 14:15 -0500
    Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-07-02 13:29 +0100
    Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-07-02 19:38 +0100
      Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2011-07-02 21:08 +0100
      Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2011-07-05 12:54 -0700
        Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2011-07-08 17:29 +0100
          Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit Karl E. Peterson <karl@exmvps.org> - 2011-07-08 10:33 -0700
    Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-07-06 09:37 +0100
  Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit "Abhishek" <abhishek007p@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-02 01:46 +0530
  Re: Visual Studio 6 on Windows7 64-bit David Kerber <dkerber@WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> - 2011-07-12 08:22 -0400

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