| Subject: Visual Studio 97 install problem and VS 2008 Express |
| Group: microsoft.public.vc.ide_general,microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 5/8/2008 4:52:35 AM |
| From: Ken Goldman [Email Address Protection] |
Two questions (need to solve one of them) 1 - When I tried to install VS97 (which is VC++ 5) on a new XP system, I had install errors and the help files did not install. Is there something about XP (perhaps a security setting) that would prevent this? Is there a way to overlay the help files separately? 2 - I install VS 2008 Express, so I'd have help files. But this doesn't seem to have the 'visual' aspect, where I can graphically create a MFC GUI. Am I missing something, or is that a limitation of the free version? So currently, I can use VS97 to create code, and I fire up VS2008 when I need a help file. It works, but it's not classy. [Note to responders who will tell me VS97 is too old and I should buy something new: 95% of my programming is portable C developed under Unix and 95% is non-GUI server code. So I just use VS97 to check compatibility and a rare small GUI.] |
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| Subject: Re: Visual Studio 97 install problem and VS 2008 Express |
| Group: microsoft.public.vc.ide_general,microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 5/8/2008 8:37:01 AM |
| From: David Wilkinson [Email Address Protection] |
Ken Goldman wrote: > Two questions (need to solve one of them) > > 1 - When I tried to install VS97 (which is VC++ 5) on a new > XP system, I had install errors and the help files > did not install. Is there something about XP (perhaps > a security setting) that would prevent this? Is there > a way to overlay the help files separately? > > 2 - I install VS 2008 Express, so I'd have help files. > But this doesn't seem to have the 'visual' aspect, where > I can graphically create a MFC GUI. Am I missing something, > or is that a limitation of the free version? > > So currently, I can use VS97 to create code, and I fire > up VS2008 when I need a help file. It works, but it's > not classy. > > [Note to responders who will tell me VS97 is too old > and I should buy something new: 95% of my programming > is portable C developed under Unix and 95% is non-GUI > server code. So I just use VS97 to check compatibility > and a rare small GUI.] Ken: I don't know about the install errors (when I installed VC5 on XP it was at SP1), but I do know that if you have WinXP SP2, you need to make make this registry change: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_DISABLE_MK_PROTOCOL] "MSDEV.EXE"=dword:00000000 in order to make the Help work. The Express version of VC++ does not include MFC. [IMHO, VC5 is a very poor way to check Unix/Windows compatibility. Why not use VC++ Express and the latest version of gcc?] -- David Wilkinson Visual C++ MVP |
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