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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C++ - using 'new' operator cannot be stepped into during debug

COM+ application, building with MS Visual Studio 6, SP 6 on Windows XP SP 3, and debugging remotely. My main question is this; why would I not be able to step into 'new' if I can step into 'delete'? I'm mostly looking for ideas as to what I should…
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Does or DID Win32 CopyFile(W) ever raise a (SEH) exception?

The Windows API CopyFile function is rather straightforward: BOOL CopyFileW( [in] LPCWSTR lpExistingFileName, [in] LPCWSTR lpNewFileName, [in] BOOL bFailIfExists ); ... If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended…
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Migrating from SQLOLEDB to MSOLEDBSQL problem with recordset update

During migration from SQLOLEDB to MSOLEDBSQL i am facing some issues with ADO update operation on Recordset. In our system we use old ADO with SQLOLEDB provider and during migration to MSOLEDBSQL it occures that there are some differences during…
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Software compiled in Visual Studio 6 that runs on Windows 7 crashing on memory read error in Windows 10

We have a button in our UI that pulls history to a modal. Whenever you click on this button now, in any of our builds , specifically on Windows 10 , the RAM usage surges and the program crashes immediately. Note that this is ONLY happening on…
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What is preventing this code from compiling in Visual C++ 6?

I'm looking at this GitHub repository for a drop-in replacement for std::shared_ptr in Visual C++ 6 to modify some old code but I've found that this library is incompatible due a parser error being thrown by the compiler. I know that nested template…
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Backward compatibility for IDL/ODL

Can anyone tell where I can read on the IDL defined by Microsoft. I need to know about changing the IDL file by adding new members to interfaces. I have some confusion about maintaining the backward compatibility. I am programming in VS6 (ActiveX…
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When can a bad String Compare work? String Pooling VS6.0

Ran into a problem in VS2013, and was asking HOW COULD THIS HAVE EVER WORKED? A customer had the following macro in production. (specifics have been changed) #define IS_NONE( charPtr ) ( ( charPtr == "none" || charPtr == "N/A" ) ? TRUE : FALSE…
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Why is field update throwing Binding Collection Error

I have a VB6 app that connects to a SQL Server server by using ADODB 2.8. I have declared the bindings and the recordsets. The information is being shown correctly. Still, when I try to update any field, I get an error saying: Binding Collection…
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Difference between 'Start with full compile' and 'Make Exe'?

In the VB6 IDE... we can compile the project by pressing Ctrl+F5 or by choosing File->Make Exe. Is there any difference between these two procedures? The former one seems to be a bit faster relatively. What I want to know is "What's difference…
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C++ append function with two arguments not working

I'm not a c++ developer but my current project is updating a legacy c++ application. All throughout the application I see append statements that take two arguments.. strTemp.append( cDollars, len ); I'm trying to understand the C++ language and…
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CButton derived 'SubclassDlgItem's not visible on CDialogBar with VS2015 CLR, but respond to button clicks, worked fine in VC++ 6

I'm trying migrate a VC++ 6 based code to work with VS2015 CLR. I have major functionality working, but UI has some things missing. There's a CDialogBar that hosts CWnd derived objects and CButton objects. CWnd derived objects are being display…
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Create on a CDialog derived class returns 0 with VS2015 CLR, worked fine in VC++ 6

I'm trying migrate a VC++ 6 based code to work with VS2015 CLR. I have major functionality working, but UI has some things missing. I have traced this issue to failures of SubclassDlgItem due to NULL HWnd for parent CWnd. It is NULL, because Create…
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Include installers as part of C++ utility in visual studio 6

I am developing a Windows C++ utility using MFC Framework in Visual Studio 6.0(Need to have this combination because of some internal requirements). My utility installs some softwares, and then configure them from registry. Hence I need to bundle…
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Is there a implementation for VC6?

Are there any working implementations for Visual C++ 6? Specifcally I'm looking for std::enable_if and std::is_sameand std::remove_cv.
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Very large array - C array vs C++ array. Visual Studio - exceeds max (268435456)

I am trying to create a very large array, to which, I then get the following error. char largearray[1744830451]; warning LNK4084: total image size 1750372352 exceeds max (268435456); image may not run I was told I could use a C-array and not C++ . …
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