I make VB6 programs for a living. Alas, yesterday, the Win 11 update 24H2 killed VB6 on my desktop machine. Compiled programs run fine, but the IDE development part crashes on startup. Some time ago, I updated the machine from Win 10 to Win 11. No problems with VB6 whatsoever. But then 24H2 came along… and effectively made updating my 100 VB6 apps impossible.
Any ideas anyone? Yes yes,already re-installet VB6 Enterprise to no avail. My Win 11 laptop runs VB6 just fine however. But the 24H2 has not hit the laptop yet.
If I have to re-install Win 10 and then VB6 again + a vast number of other apps, I’ll go really mad. Should such a thing happen again, I’ll have to lift everything over to Unix and ban M$. With the trail of last years’ update disasters in mind, you cannot trust M$ updates anymore. Of course I’ve blocked further updates on both machines. No further updates until they have been tested for 6 months.
Right, VB6 is a prehistoric relic, but thousands of users/programmers like myself are still using it. Many big companies have made heavy investments in their VB6 base. Cannot be re-programmed “just like that”. For users, VB6 is often the fastest possible path from idea to realization. At least when you have VB6 “in your fingers” like me. C-sharp could be an altermative, but my customers would not be happy about it.