Those controls are located in the \COMMON\TOOLS\VB\CONTROLS folder on the Visual Basic install CD. First, when installing Visual Basic 6, you may want to install and register a couple of additional uncommonly used controls.
Let’s set up a simple Visual Basic project to demonstrate connecting to Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 running on the same Windows 8 computer. At a minimum, Oracle ODBC Driver 11.2.0.x.0 (for ODBC type connections), and Oracle Provider for OLE DB 11.2.0.x.0 (for OLE DB type connections) must be installed with the Oracle Client. Using Visual Basic 6.0, or any development environment for that matter, requires that certain components be selected for installation when installing the Oracle Client. To re-register that file, from a Windows command prompt (Run – cmd.exe) , enter the following: cd \windows\syswow64 From time to time it may be necessary to re-register the 32 bit MSCOMCTL.OCX file to avoid error messages when opening Visual Basic projects. The automatic Windows updates may also pose an issue.
Visual Basic 6.0 (note that you should install service pack 6 for Visual Basic 6, even if the installer locks up at the very end) will run just fine on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit ( and probably on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit also), although drawing form objects is a little slow. As I mentioned, Visual Basic 6 is not officially compatible with Windows 7, and the fact that it is a 32 bit application running on a 64 bit Windows computer means that the 32 bit Oracle Client must also be installed on the computer. The OP eventually asked how to connect Visual Basic 6 to Oracle Database Personal Edition running on the same Windows 7 Pro 64 bit computer. Several people offered very good advice to guide the OP. Roughly a month ago a thread appeared on the OTN forums asking how to connect Visual Basic 2010 to Oracle Database Personal Edition on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit running on the same computer. Of course, Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 and the Oracle Client 11.2.0.3 are not officially supported on Windows 8, so maybe the quest is an exercise in futility. But I still like the language a lot for its simplicity, rapid development, and significant pre-existing code base within my company. Novem(Modified December 7, 2012, May 22, 2015, May 11, 2016)Ĭompatibility problems? Visual Basic 6.0, released in 1998, is not officially compatible with Windows 8 Pro 64 bit… or Windows 7, or Windows Vista.
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