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Please help me. I have Visual Basic 5 but my school runs 6 so I can't open my projects at home. Is there a way you can open Visual Basic 6 projects in Visual Basic 5?
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How to open Vb6 projects in Vb5
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DavidfromBoston
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I have done this.
VB 5 says it cannot understand "retain" parameter or something like that. Just ignore the error.
The other problem I have had is that VB6 uses controls that have a later version that VB5. You have to change the version back to the VB5 number. Look at the .vbp file with notepad. I have had problems with richtx32.ocx and COMDLG32.OCX. You have to change version from #1.2# to #1.1#. I think the error is that it cannot find the control.
Going back to VB6 from VB5 is no problem. VB6 just updates the version number. I think there is an option to not update versions of controls, but I have never tried it.
VB 5 says it cannot understand "retain" parameter or something like that. Just ignore the error.
The other problem I have had is that VB6 uses controls that have a later version that VB5. You have to change the version back to the VB5 number. Look at the .vbp file with notepad. I have had problems with richtx32.ocx and COMDLG32.OCX. You have to change version from #1.2# to #1.1#. I think the error is that it cannot find the control.
Going back to VB6 from VB5 is no problem. VB6 just updates the version number. I think there is an option to not update versions of controls, but I have never tried it.
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