Re: Compiling VB6 project without upgrading to VS2008

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The misguided concept that newer is better? Bullocks! Inno Setup which is
very popular and works damn near flawlessly is written in Delphi 2. I'd
like to see you churn out something as terrific as software like that with
any flavour of .NET, MSFT or Codegear. You couldn't.

"Bill McCarthy" <BillMcCarthy.com Are Identity Thieves> wrote in message
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| "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > I'm not talking about just the little trinkets, like that, but I mean
| > *tools* as in Real Tools. For instance, when Borland "obsoletes" an old
| > version of one of their programming tools, they don't pull it from the
| > market like Microsoft does.
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| Yes they do.
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| > They throw it out there for all to have:
http://www.codegear.com/downloads
| >
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| Nope. What they do offer is "antique" software for free. Typically that
| stuff is 20 years old.
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| http://dn.codegear.com/museum/antiquesoftware
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| But try getting anything from them from the 90's or earlier this decade:
| there's a huge gap. They do offer the 2006 stuff for free which was
clearly
| a response to Microsoft's free express editions of Visual Studio 2005.
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