Run Visual Studio 2002, 2003, and VB6 side-by-side on Windows 7

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I am upgrading my machine to Windows 7 but I would still be supporting VS2002 (.net 1.0), VS2003 (.net 1.1) , and VB6 applications.

Is it possible to load these VS and VB6 applications, build, compile, edit code, and support this source code in Windows 7?

I have managed to do so. But the debugger failed on me a couple of weeks ago in vs2003 against IIS. I do know the usual trickery but it was to no avail. So; it might work (with some hacking). Might not, its unsupported etc. — stefan, Mar 07 '11 at 23:16
This question is partly a duplicate of [has anyone had success with VB6 IDE on Windows 7](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2339536/has-anyone-had-success-with-visual-studio-6-on-windows-7). In short, yes: see answers on the other question for tips on what to do. — MarkJ, Mar 08 '11 at 08:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:16

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Best way to answer your question is to do an experiment. You can setup a VirtualBox whose guest OS is Windows 7, then put whatever programs inside and test out. If they run fine, it's okay to do the real upgrades.

answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:16

Peon the Great

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:17

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Yes you can. Refer here http://www.vbmonster.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/vb/33424/VB6-on-Windows-7-64-bit

answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:17

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:17

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You need a virtual machine. Sorry. You could always see if the virtual machine in Win7 works - but failing that, do what I did and create a virtual machine running XP and run it from there.

answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:17

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:18

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I'm pretty sure I've used VB6 and VS2003 on Vista in the past, so there shouldn't be a problem with 7. I'd second setting up a VirtualBox or maybe try VirtualPC to give it a go.

answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:18

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:56

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Even if for some strange reason you weren't able to install the development tools, you could (assuming you're using a high enough edition) use Windows XP mode for those tools that you couldn't get to run natively under Windows 7.

answered Mar 07 '11 at 23:56

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Run Visual Studio 2002, 2003, and VB6 side-by-side on Windows 7

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