Installing VB4 side-by-side with VB3 and VB6...

[Bobby C]

I have a legacy app written in VB4 that was isolated on a specific
development machine. The power supply blew and we've decided to bring the
app over to another development machine which has VB3 and VB6 installed.
The product will be getting a sorely needed rewrite later this year but I
have to move it for now. Are there any issues that I might need to be aware
of? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Robert

[MikeD]

I have a legacy app written in VB4 that was isolated on a specific development machine. The power supply blew and we've decided to
bring the app over to another development machine which has VB3 and VB6 installed. The product will be getting a sorely needed
rewrite later this year but I have to move it for now. Are there any issues that I might need to be aware of? Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated.

Is this the 32 bit or 16 bit edition of VB4 that you're talking about? I'm going to assume 32 bit.

If VB4 is not already installed on this PC, you'll most likely have to reinstall VB6 after you've installed VB4. Even if you don't
"have to", you probably should reinstall VB6 anyway, just to make sure.

Other than that though, there should be no issues having all 3 of these versions of VB installed on the same PC. Naturally, make
sure all of them are installed to separate folders though.

But really, I don't even think I'd bother with VB4 at all. You most likely can open this VB4 project in VB6 and it'll work fine.
The only gotcha might be if you used controls from VB4 that were discontinued in VB6. If that's the case, you can either spend what
would likely be minimal time replacing those with VB6 counterparts or you could install the discontinued controls (which are on the
VB6 CD but not installed by VB6's Setup).