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Visual Studio 6 C ++ Script on Windows 8.1

Some of the developers here installed 8.1 last night, and when we went to download VC6 .. and an instant crash on the splash screen. We tried standard compatibility changes, started as an administrator, etc. Etc. And no luck. Does anyone else have these problems? Could you resolve them?

It worked last night on Windows 8 just fine ...

Details about the failure.

  • Go to msdev.exe
  • Double-click msdev.exe
  • The splash screen will appear.
  • Crash. (Microsoft Developer Studio has stopped working)
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I had the same problem, but I got around it.

I installed Daffodil from codeplex ( http://daffodil.codeplex.com/ ) and then opened my VC ++ project in VS2010 (go through the project update procedure). Right-click on the properties of your project (not the solution) and go to the "Configuration Properties", "General" section. Change the "Platform Toolset" to v60, and your project will now compile with the VC ++ 6 compiler. Note. You must have VC ++ 6 installed - see the Daffodil documentation. Now you can use the VS2010 IDE to compile all the VC ++ 6 code!

Stever

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I succeeded in another method (similar to @ szc982 method):

  • Go to "C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Visual Studio \ Common \ MSDev98 \ Bin"
  • Rename "MSDEV.exe" to "MSDEV-S.exe" (or any other name)
  • Right-click on "MSDEV-S.exe"> "Properties"> "Compatibility"> "Change Settings" for all users.
  • Check "Disable display scaling with high DPI settings" and click "OK"
  • Go to the section "C: \ ProgramData \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Start Menu \ Programs \ Microsoft Visual C ++ 6.0"
  • Right-click the "Microsoft Visual C ++ 6.0" shortcut and change the target to "MSDEV-S.exe"

Hope this helps

Note. Make sure that when installing VC 6 to complete a custom installation, clear the "Data Access" checkbox.

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