Re: Using VC++ 6.0 under Vista

From:

David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.atl,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui,microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:57:10 -0500

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Victor Bazarov wrote:

ranin02 wrote:

I was wondering if anyone has any experience to share, successful or
unsuccessful, using VC++ 6.0 under Vista. I know it isn't supported
but we may have to do it anyway.

Sorry, I don't have experience to share, but I have a request...

Could you elaborate on the "may have to" part? Why would you possibly
_have to_ do that? I am genuinely curious to learn this just so I can
broaden my software engineering horizons. Thanks!

Victor:

One possible reason is that later versions of the compiler do not
officially support older platforms as a target. If you have to support
these platforms, then I would say using a newer version of the compiler
is a bigger risk than using an older compiler on a new development platform.

Using the VC6 compiler on Vista is unlikely to result in compilation
errors. Rather there might be problems with the IDE (UAC related,
perhaps). Indeed this happened with XP also; XP SP2 broke the JIT
debugging in VC6, but everything else seems to work OK.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP