We have a program that was developed in VB5 (VS 97) on a Win98 SE computer
several years ago.  We kept the program source and development system on that
computer because of the task it would be to move it and all the third party
add ons to another system.
Well that Win98 hard drive took a dive.  Now we are trying to put it
together on an XP Pro system that has VS2005 installed on it.  I first
installed VS 97 VB5 on the XP system.  I placed all the source code into a
directory structure that looked like the original one on the Win98 system.  I
launched the source in VB5 by double clicking the source.vb file and the
program seemed to load with all 12 dll's (additional projects) within the
project group.
All I did was open the project, look at the all the dll's in the project and
close it.  When I closed it, I got a VB5 close error that I had never seen on
the Win98 system.  So I thought OK how about some service packs.  So I found
(after much searching) the vbsp3.exe program to install sp3 on VB5.  After I
installed it I could open and close the IDE without the closing error, but
the dll's do not load with the main project as they did before.
Before I start chasing my tail I have a few Questions:
Will VB5 work on an XP Pro system?
Will VB5 co-exist with VS2005 and .NET 2.0?
Is vbsp3 a bad thing to install over VS97?

Thanks for any knowledge or experience anyone has with this combination.
Rich

Yes, it will work fine.

Yup ... you should have no conflicts.

SP3 is good.  Should cause no problems either.

-b ;-)

vb5 works with XP except that database access gives a message objects not
found.
I have re-installed but not too keen to modify the windows registry.
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