xiaojun11

I'm currently developing a program that will need VB6.exe to make dll and open the .vbp projects for a customer.To make this program work, I will need to install the VB6 in customer's pc

The problem I'm facing now is I'm not able to get a VB6 copy from any retailer in my country. I called the microsoft dealer and he suggested I can just use the VB6.exe, and I should able to use it without install VB6 as there are alot of his clients doing that. I've tried but failed to open the VB6. Then I copy the whole folder over, VB6 is able to be opened up but I cant use the make dll/make exe function....and some load errors if I open a vbp project that having Class modules..

Anybody know how to solve this? Thank you in advance....

reboot

a) You can't open .vbps or compile them without VB6. Period.

b) There is not now, nor has there ever been, a license available from Microsoft that allows you to distribute VB6 like you describe. Unless you intend to buy a copy of VB6 for every customer.

Bolek

Why do your customers need the compiler? It's not a good idea, I think, unless they are really experts and perfectly know what they are doing.

Val

If you want the flexibility of changable code, you may want to look at VB Scripting (Microsoft Script Control). With VBScript, you can make classes in your project to be accessible to the script, and then the script can use them. The only disadvantages of that is the slower execution speed (1), no variable types except for Variant (2), and the need to do file access and the like through some outside class (3). But unless you are doing something extremely critical that has to run real-time, this probably shouldn't worry you.

Distributing vb compiler with your app is illegal as reboot mentioned.

loquin

As others have implied, why do you think you NEED to distribute a compiler?