Re: Visual C++ 6 support issue

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From: Alexander Grigoriev (alegr_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 22:14:24 -0700

You can also "downgrade" your VC7.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/previous/downgrade.aspx

"Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.us> wrote in message
news:MPG.1b0eb0cb19397e349896e2@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <vp78a0lq7m2ol6e40rijbf427cf4dq7s91@4ax.com>,
> newcomer@flounder.com says...
> > It is a good question. A lot of us wonder the same thing. Bottom line:
until VS6 actually
> > stops running, we consider VS7 only as a last-ditch solution. Since
effecitively it hasn't
> > been supported in years (SP6 came as a surprise to most of us), it is
not something we've
> > been overly concerned with. The real pain is fhe difficulty people have
in getting VS6,
> > the last decent development environment Microsoft delivered. I have on
client that went to
> > VS7 because there was no way to get VS6, then a few weeks later ranted
at me for three
> > solid hours about how VS7 was unusable.
>
> My advice would be to get them to buy MSDN Professional (or higher)
> which will get them copies of VS 6.
>