QUESTION ABOUT VBRUN600.DLL AND VBRUN500.DLL

Question

Hello

Hopefully this question will be easily answered.  I am not completely sure if I am posting in the correct area but because I saw  Visual Basic mentioned in another posting I decide to give it a go.  I know that VBRUN600.dll is a module used when running windows applications created with Visual Basic.

My question is just straight up  if my computer has a VBRUN500.dll can I use that  instead  or in place of VBRUN600.dll. and if so how  would I do that? In other words I know that VBRUN500.dll is a module used when running windows applications created with Visual Basic as well.

Thanks

Answer 1

The answers are No, this is not the correct forum for classic Visual Basic (I think there is no forum for it anymore), and No, you cannot use v5 of the VB runtime where v6 is needed.  If you are missing v6, most likely you can obtain it as a download from download.microsoft.com, but if I recall correctly, Windows XP and up come with those runtimes already, meaning it is not really necessary.  If your OS is XP or up and you are missing a runtime, run sfc /scannow.

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Jose R. MCP

Answer 2

Hi Nothingbutanillusion,
How is it going with Jose’s suggestion?
It seems that you have got your answer here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/thread/c113c469-c97c-4c94-ae34-af8230c6e6e0/#36f5f939-af80-46c0-b18b-9583a3aeec7a.
As far as I know, MSDN Forums have no longer support Visual Basic 6 or former, but there are many third-party support sites that do. The link below lists some of them.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/aa350a38-3bb9-4919-9cc1-afaf7fed52f5
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Best Regards,

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Bob Wu [MSFT]
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