I've lost my VC 6. CD!!! Help!

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I still use Visual studio 6.0 pro. I own a licence. I'm using it for ages, still use it. Because I have no time/money to make the port of the VC++ code from VS6 to VS 2010.

But I've lost my Visual Studio 6.0 professional edition in my moving. I've searched in all drawers/box/etc the last 3 days. No CD! My HD crached. I need it. As it was a legit CD, I didn't backup the CDROM. My bad, but the deep sh*t situation remains: I need a VS6 Pro!

Can someone help please? Did I say PLEAAAAASEEE? ;-)

Many (many many ) thanks in advance.

Best regards
Guy

Posted 1-Feb-12 3:09am

boisselazon

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thatraja · Answer 1 · 2012-02-01T05:39:00

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Well you have a license, now Contact Microsoft's Sales Department[^]

Posted 1-Feb-12 5:39am

thatraja

Abhinav S · Answer 2 · 2012-02-01T03:11:00

Solution 1

Unfortunately, its unlikely that anyone here will be able to help you.
This is a public forum where licenses are respected.

Posted 1-Feb-12 3:11am

Abhinav S

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Emilio Garavaglia 1-Feb-12 15:23pm

The CD and the license are unrelated. MS CDs are all the same, and license are codes given to individuals.

He's just asking for a copy of a medium no one still industrially produce.

Abhinav S 1-Feb-12 22:28pm

Im still not certain about providing dumps.

Emilio Garavaglia 2-Feb-12 2:16am

"still not certain": so what are you talking about ?

Abhinav S 2-Feb-12 3:10am

Emilio - no one should provide software dumps to someone else - irrespective of whether it is a genuine request or not.
At least not on a public forum.

If you are very keen to help the OP, please do so outside the realm of the forum.

Emilio Garavaglia 2-Feb-12 4:03am

"No one should" means nothing.

Or it is "it is forbidden" or it is "it is allowed".
There are laws and license contract for that. And can be even different form subject to subject and from country to country.

The fact that a dump can be provided or not depends on how the license is structure. Saying NO-ONE in aphoristic way is an abuse. The world is not the same everywhere.

The VC6 license says that the license code cannot be redistributed. Not the CD itself (you could download it publicly and anonymously from MS sites: the problem is that the site is anymore shown in pubic claims: the OP was simply asking a way to reach that site).

Saying "This is a public forum where licenses are respected" is tendentious, especially if the OP was not asking to violate the licence.