How to open Vb6 projects in Vb5

[Guest_imported]

Please help me. I have Visual Basic 5 but my school runs 6 so I can't open my projects at home. Is there a way you can open Visual Basic 6 projects in Visual Basic 5?

 

[webmigit]

It will tell you it doesn't understand a parameter so you open the project (.vbp file) in notepad and take out the parameter... this usually worked for me... There's a few parameters to take out though...

Tony

 

[DavidfromBoston]

I have done this.

VB 5 says it cannot understand "retain" parameter or something like that. Just ignore the error.

The other problem I have had is that VB6 uses controls that have a later version that VB5. You have to change the version back to the VB5 number. Look at the .vbp file with notepad. I have had problems with richtx32.ocx and COMDLG32.OCX. You have to change version from #1.2# to #1.1#. I think the error is that it cannot find the control.

Going back to VB6 from VB5 is no problem. VB6 just updates the version number. I think there is an option to not update versions of controls, but I have never tried it.