Questions tagged [visual-studio-6]

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.

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Visual Studio 2015 for Visual Studio 6 Code Compatibility

On windows Server 2012 I have installed Visual Studio 2015. Now I have to build Visual Studio C++ 6 based working project in VC++ 2015 but it show various errors and warnings like: 1>------ Build started: Project: Exewrap, Configuration: Debug…
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Changing Project Build Configuration in Bulk VS6

Does anybody know if it is possible to change the build configuration settings on a group of VS6 project files? I'm working on a very large project which is still using Visual Studio 6 (I know) and the default build config is set to either Win32…
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dll works fine in a VS2010 project but gives access violations in a VS6 Application

I have been creating a dll for a usb device over the past few weeks, the device came with its own dll which i used to create my own dll in VS2010, I then created a test application which uses said dll in 2010 to get it working. It works well,…
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Compile-time error using Visual Studio 6

First of all: it is some old code to be executed on some old machines, thus I'm forced to use the ancient Visual Studio 6 and can't simply update to a newer compiler. My problem: I have an array of a structure and try to statically initialize it.…
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What are the default return values for operator< and operator[] in C++ (Visual Studio 6)?

I've inherited a large Visual Studio 6 C++ project that needs to be translated for VS2005. Some of the classes defined operator< and operator[], but don't specify return types in the declarations. VS6 allows this, but not VS2005. I am aware that the…
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Porting from VS6 to VS2012: return values screwed up

While porting a VS6 project to VC++2012 environment, I'm experiencing a strange behavior... Let's say I've the following // double AreaIco = 75.0; // double theApp.m_GlobalScale = 0.25; double ToLong(double); // elsewhere defined double result =…
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How to add method to MFC-ActiveX

The question seems to be stupid since there are many explanations in internet, that describe how to add a new method that can be called by users of the resulting OCX later. Unfortunately it does not work for me. I have a MFC-based ActiveX-control…
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Crash when linking Debug-CRT in static/dynamic library mixture?

I have a strange problem where I suffer from crashes when deleting objects in my code. The objects are valid, there are no memory leaks that could overwrite them and it happens only in debug mode. The same code compiled with Linux works fine in…
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Visual Studio 6 and Teamcity - how to set up a build configuration?

I have to set up a build configuration (Teamcity 7.1) for some old Visual Studio 6 C projects. I am not common with C/C++ programs and their environment and have absolutely no idea how to configure the build steps for this kind of projects. I…
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Retrieve HTML source from CHtmlView (visual studio 6)

Im working on an application that uses a CHtmlView. New requirements mean I would like to be able to get the HTML source from the class to parse for a specific tag (or if possible just get the information in the tag). This would be fine if we were…
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How to code in Visual Studio 6.0 without UI editor

I'm new to Visual Basic. I have done some tutorials in Visual Studio 2010 and I am working with Visual Basic 6.0. I don't know where I can write code the way I did in VB 2010. Instead of the code editor that was available in Visual Studio 2010, I…
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Compliling Visual Studio 6 C project from git bash

I'm trying to automate builds of Visual Studio 6 projects (written in C). I can build the project (.dsp) with the following command from the windows console: msdev reg.dsp /make "reg - Win32 Release" But I cannot do this from the GIT bash. What it…
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How do I write the following inline assembly code in Visual C++ 6.0?

I am writing an application in C in GCC (for Linux/Ubuntu) that uses the following inline assembly. float a[4] = { 10, 20, 30, 40 }; float b[4] = { 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1 }; asm volatile("movups (%0), %%xmm0\n\t" "mulps (%1), %%xmm0\n\t" …
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Visual Modeler in VS 6

Till date I have used only VB6 Professional for developing apps. But recently I have joined a company which owns VS 6 Enterprise (or some such version) I was just exploring what is available in VS 6 Ent. and I found Visual Modeler. The tutorial…
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How do I optimise a debug DLL to minimize debug checks in VC6?

I've been assigned to a large legacy project, which can only be deployed in debug version, due to various historical (and stupid) reasons. As one might expect, there are some performance issues. The project is written in C, Visual Studio 6 (yes,…
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