Application Compatibility with Vista - My Initial Findings
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Monday, October 02, 2006
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Hi Tom,
I am a VB6 developer and am grappling with Vista - mostly the issues relating to User Permissions and Folders. Your Blog post is the best article on the issue I have read. There is certainly a severe shortage of information on VB6/Vista. It would be nice to collaborate on a "HOW TO" document. Would you be interested in exchanging VB6/Vista experiences?
Regards, Leigh
I know this is a late comment, but...
I'm just starting to look at these issues myself. Some can be addressed using techniques developed for XP, some using techniques developed for locked-down corporate environments, and so on.
One trick that I haven't Vista-tested is to write applications as HTAs. In many cases core functionality can be embedded in ActiveX libraries as CAB files, sometimes with the help of LPKTool, etc.
Another idea is Registration Free COM that is pretty mature under XP SP2, and takes the deprecated app.exe.local (DLL/COM redirection) technique to another level.
Keep up the god work though, this will be a growing problem - if only from the perspective of keeping pre-Vista code running under Vista.
- Bob
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