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Running VB6 apps (what' s needed?) - 5/16/2005 6:51:41 PM

dthomson

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Is it possible to add support to WinPE 2005 so that it can run VB6 apps?

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RE: Running VB6 apps (what' s needed?) - 5/17/2005 12:16:11 AM

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Answering my own question

I expanded the following files from my Server 2003 SP1 build source files to the <drive>\WinPE\I386\System32 folder:

ASycFilt.dl_
ComCat.dl_
MSVBVM60.dl_
OLEAut32.dl_
OLEPro32.dl_
STDOLE2.tl_

I ran a very simple VB6 app and it seemed to run ok. More testing is definitely needed. I might run regsvr32 on the files just to cover my bases.

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RE: RE: Running VB6 apps (what' s needed?) - 6/4/2005 5:42:27 PM

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I went ahead and included commands in my custom WinPE startup app to run regsvr32 on all dll' s which are listed as self registering in the vbrun60.inf file (OLEAUT32.DLL, OLEPRO32.DLL, MSVBVM60.DLL, COMCAT.DLL).

Depending on the app being used, you might also need to include and register comctl32.ocx and mscomctl.ocx

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