Visual Studio 6.0 is a Microsoft IDE released in 1998
A Microsoft IDE released in 1998 for Visual Basic and C++ development predating .NET. There have been numerous successors to this family of products.
Questions tagged [visual-studio-6]
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Win32 Rebar : Issue with myRebar.cbSize occurred after migrating from visual studio 6 to visual studio 2010
I'm trying to migrate fully working win32 code on visual studio 6 to visual studio 2010. It seems there is some problem with Rebar. Below are my code that working fine on visual studio 6.
HWND hwndRebar = NULL;
REBARINFO …
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VB6 Connecting to a Database
Alright, what i want to do sounds simple. I would like to load a form and on form load call a sql statement that returns 1 item and places it in TextBox1. Here is what i have so far.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Call openTheDatabase
End Sub
Public…
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Define a struct in a midl generated header file
I am in the process of automating the build of a legacy product and have hit a wall...
I have a .idl file that is compiled in VC++ 6.0 using midl to generate a .tlb, .h and .c file that has a manual build step to add:
struct StructDef;
Just ahead…
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Aligning VS2010 and VS6 compiler and linker switches for a legacy build
For a legacy project, I have a solution in Visual Studio 2010 that compiles using the Visual Studio 6 compiler using the Daffodil extension for Visual Studio 2010.
I am trying to get the compiler (and linker) input equal (as much as possible) to…
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std::auto_ptr Compile Issue in Visual Studio 6.0
Update: Edited code example to use AutoA for the workaround (which was the original intention). Realized this after seeing rlbond's answer.
I am trying to incorporate the usage of auto_ptr in my code based on recommendations from this…
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Can't open dsw file in Visual Studio C++ 6.0
When I try to "Open Workplace" of my project, visual studio does nothing, solution explorer is empty.
Also when I try to open my project, I occasionally see this error:
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Using /Zm with CL In Visual Studio 6.0
I am using a software called Symbols for engineering modelling. It produces a .cpp file for the model, along with a .bat file for command line compiling.
It uses a compiler to produce a .dll file which it then calls back to complete the…
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Debugging old VC6 DLL
I am trying to debug old DLLs (for which I have the project and source code) used by an APP (which I cannot build anymore). The project was developed using Visual Studio 6, so this is what I am using as well.
What I tried without success:
Added…
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is there any C++98 compiler which works for Windows NT?
I am working in a project which needs to run in a Windows NT, the application must be implemented in C++98. Currently we only have Visual Studio 6 but we are having many problems with basic syntax statements.
Do you known any alternative compiler…
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Visual studio unicode issue when using nmake command
I use Visual studio 6 to build dll from .rc file using nmake command and it works fine with English, Arabic and French but when trying to generate dll for Russian language it generated with a garbage data not Russian I think this problem is due to…
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How to concat char array into a string
Below I have two variable store in a char array
char one[7] = "130319";
char two[7] = "05A501";
I try to concat them with stringstream
std::ostringstream sz;
sz << one<< two;
After that I convert it to string
std::string stringh =…
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cannot convert from 'unsigned short [9]' to 'char []'
I am working on very old C++ project. When building my C++ code in Visual Studio 6 I am getting error "cannot convert from 'unsigned short [9]' to 'char []'".
for code below:
char variable[] = _T("something");
I googled and tried to understand…
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Visual Studio 6 VC++ Project version - how do I increment it?
I am making changes to an old program written in VC++6. the project resources include a 'version' set which include the following:
Block Header
Comments
Company Name
File Version
Product Version
Both FileVersion and ProductVersion are at 1.0.0.97…
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embed all required DLLs in one dll
I am creating ActiveX control with visual c++ 6.
my control uses some DLLs, and I want to embed all those DLLs in the output DLL
how can I do That?
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in VC++ VS6 a simple printf gives fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
I am using visual studio 6 , vc++ on windows 7 and written a simple helloworld program which is by default created by VS6.
but due to printf it is giving following error:
// testapp.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console…
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