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My friend composes songs about sewing machines. He's a Singer songwriter, or sew it seems.
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Button most days he keeps you in stitches, does he?
Hopefully, at other times, he isn't some sort of basted.
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Actually we have a demerit punning contest. The most demerits wins and I'm so far ahead thanks to OriginalGriff. 
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He's screwed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hi All,
My quest to get out of the pub(?). I had a telephone interview (unsuccessful) for a VB6 programmer (!). Basically a company uses a VB6 backbone and are updating to a .NET modern system but need to keep the VB6 up and running until the new shiney .NET takes over. Lots of .NET talking to COM headaches.
In prepartion I tried to install VS6 and bang(!). Couldn't get it installed... Will it install on 10 or has my PC just choked??
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With Alan Partridge 'Aha!' Probably never need it but...
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The real reason it's hard to install is that even Win10 tries to vomit when VB6 gets too close ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Are you on a 64 bit version of Windows 10? If so you won't be able to install VS 6. The reason is Windows 10 x64 no longer supports 16 bit applications and the VS 6 setup program is a 16 bit application.
What you can do though, is create a VM using Hyper-V and install XP on it and then install VS 6 in that VM.
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So, you can, Installed XP emmulation but not really used it.
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If it's the fact that 64-bit OSes don't support 16-bit processes that's the impediment, why not install the 32-bit version of Win10, instead of going all the way back to XP?
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I had a similar experience and used VirtualBox running XP.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Yeah, VB6 will install on Windows 10. I had to do this last year. Various articles online explaining this, including the one that Griff pointed out.
We had the same scenario, needed to get access to the original source code in order to port over to current .Net C#. That was a nightmare, let me tell you. 
I am amazed at how many production systems still run VB6 apps. 
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The UK Police use or used a system of VB6 talking to a Database, so wanted some one like Billy Tables (from XKCD) to get arrested to see if would handle that...
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OTVDM or download portable VB6 (search google)
You can also look here, might be of interest ([^])
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VS6 will install and run just fine on Win10, even 64-bit. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I just heard of this: New Google feature lets you search for songs just by humming them | The Independent[^] and I have to say, it's pretty impressive stuff with actual songs - it takes very few bars to identify a song correctly.
It even got "The Expanse theme" and "Geralt of Rivia" from the Witcher game.
Then I tried to sing to it.
My phone turned itself off, and is proving reluctant to power up again - I think I scared it ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Mine's Broken it just keeps saying "John Cage - 4'22"
[Edit]
NVM - my microphone was switched off.
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I tried humming that one, but I might've been off-key 
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When I sing, my band of pigeons join in 
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Quote: Re: Everyone is a critic ...
I'll bet you haven't even properly check the prepostion . . . er . . . oops.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Don't feel bad. The therapy bills for the steering wheel in my car(*) are outrageous.
(*) I sing in the car. A lot.
Software Zen: delete this;
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