Installing visual studio 6 on windows 10

Question

In Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 it was possible to install visual studio 6 by among others creating a dummy file 'msjava.dll' in '%windir%' and possibly '%windir%\system32', so that the vs6 installation programme did not interrupt for installing the virtual machine for java.

This measure did not succeed for me at two pcs upgraded to windows 10, one from windows 7 prof 64 bit and one from windows 8.1 home 64 bit.

Can anybody tell me how this might function in windows 10?

Waterscape

VS 6!? Upgrade much ;) – Shaggy

Installing a compiler without the stack protector feature (-fstack-protector in GCC, /GS in MSVC++) in 2015 is not good. – Schmooze

I haven't heard many good things about Windows 10 yet, but this is good news. – Leeway

Cool, there are others still using Visual Studio 6! Although I use it for VB6 (shh....) :) +1 – Supersedure

@Shaggy My shop is stuck using VB6. – Phono

Answer 1

Running Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows 8.1, 8 and 10.

you have to follow those steps :

• download the SP6 pack : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9183
• uncompress the VS6sp61.cab package in a directory (with Winrar or
  7zip for example)

• copy files from the SP6 in the MSDEV directory (replace common files) in %Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\ folder

  • Run msdevP.exe or msdevS.exe instead of the original msdev.exe

Source : http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-8&faq=152

source 2 : http://blog.wavosaur.com/run-visual-c-6-on-windows-8/

Nedra

How about instructions for installation? The VS6 installation hangs at the very end. It seems to install most components, but then attempting to install SP6 fails too. – Galina

These instructions helped me overcome the problem with the installation freezing. Specifically the instructions for the custom install options were important. – Gentlefolk

Answer 2

I kept my old Win 95 and old Win XP pc's. Anytime I want to use VC++ 6.0, I fire up one of those and use it. Otherwise on Win 10-64bit I use "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express". It's really old and dated but works, np.

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