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 6 Windows Common Controls 6.0 (sp6) Windows 7, 64 bit
I was asked to help work on a legacy vb6 application for someone, so I decided to toss Visual Studio 6 on my Windows 7 x64 laptop following this guide.
It installed fine, and from I can see everything is working except for Microsoft Windows Common…
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Strange behavior when casting an int to float in C
I have a doubt concerning the output of the following C program. I tried to compile it using both Visual C++ 6.0 and MinGW32 (gcc 3.4.2).
#include
int main() {
int x = 2147483647;
printf("%f\n", (float)2147483647);
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Linker: cannot open file 'nafxcwd.lib'
I have problem with compiling my project via visual studio 2013. I got this linker error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'nafxcwd.lib'
According to this page, I must use MFC in shared library. But I don't use MFC at all.
All my…
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C++ No main() function?
I'm a graduate programmer and when it comes to C++ I expect there to be a main() function everytime.
However I've been given a project written in C++ with Visual Studio 6.0 and it doesn't have a main() function. I really can't figure out how this…
user840474
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Recommended migration strategy for C++ project in Visual Studio 6
For a large application written in C++ using Visual Studio 6, what is the best way to move into the modern era?
I'd like to take an incremental approach where we slowly move portions of the code and write new features into C# for example and…
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Visual Studio 2010 IDE with Visual C++ 6.0 compiler?
How can I do that ? Can I work in VS2010 IDE but have it compile with the VS C++ 6.0 compiler?
And can I work in VS2010 IDE and have it compile by using the the VS2008 compiler ?
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Does Windows 8.1 support installation of Visual Studio 6.0 (Visual Basic 6)?
I have an old project developed in Visual Basic 6, in which I need to do an enhancement.
I need to confirm whether I can install Visual Studio 6 on Windows 8.1.
Last time, when I installed it in Windows 7, I faced difficulties in installation, but…
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how to avoid "already defined error" in C++
I am gettings these type of errors in a MFC VS6 project while linking the application:
msvcrt.lib(MSVCRT.dll) : error LNK2005: _atoi already defined in LIBC.lib(atox.obj)
I know what it means (a function exists in 2 different libraries); to solve…
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visual studio 6 "find all references"?
in visual studio 6 is there a way to "Find All References". Don't see a shortcut key here
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How can I catalog, index, and/or print VB6 source code, with each sub/function on a page..?
How can I catalog, index, and/or print VB6 source code with each sub or function on its own page..? I would like to do so with free or included Visual Studio Add-Ins if possible, but I'm not adverse to writing something myself. I'm familiar with…
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Visual Studio 6 SVN plugin
We currently use AnkhSvn with Visual Studio 2008 but have one solution that is still coded in Visual Studio 6.
Are there any SVN plugins that operate with such an old IDE?
Looking to move away from SourceSafe (shudder) and amalgamate our source…
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Visual Studio 6 Processor Pack compatibility
I've seen that a Processor Pack is available for Visual Studio 6, however it appears to only be available for users with SP5 and I am already using SP6:
In addition, the Visual C++ Processor Pack (VCPP) was removed from Service Pack 6. If you have…
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Is there any available VBP (Visual Basic 6 Project) file documentation?
Is there any available documentation on the Keys/Values used in the VBP (Visual Basic Project) file? I'm trying to achieve a better understanding of how VBP handles references internally.
Example…
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fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR (compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
I tried to compile a project with Visual Studio 6 SP6 and got the following:
usbcore.h(18) : fatal error C1001: INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR
(compiler file 'msc1.cpp', line 1794)
Please choose the Technical Support command on the Visual C++
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Compliling Visual Studio 6 C project from command line
I'm trying to automate builds of Visual Studio 6 projects (written in C). Everything works fine when I build them from the Visual Studio Development Environment, but I need some help to be able to compile a project (.dsp) or the whole workspace…
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