>A few years ago I was doing some VB 6 programming work and someone
>recommended to me the Component One VSFlexGrid 8 control.  This (and
>many other controls) was available for free in the VB .NET Resource
>Kit.  See http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.controls/browse_thread/thread/6d8bc67104af9f38
>for more info on the Resource Kit.
>
>I downloaded the kit and installed the VSFlexGrid control and used it
>within my project.
>
>Now I have a need to update this particular project and so I've
>installed VB 6 on my latest PC and retrieved a backup of the project.
>Unfortunately I don't have the VSFlexGrid control installed on this PC
>and I don't appear to have kept a backup of the VB .NET Resource Kit.
>The VB .NET Resource Kit seems to have vanished from Microsoft's site
>so I can't get it from there.
>
>Does anyone know where I can download the VB .NET Resource Kit from?
>Or anywhere else that I can get the VSFlexGrid 8 for free from?
>
>Any help is gratefully received!

>On May 21, 5:14 am, "Karl E. Peterson" <k***@exmvps.org> wrote:
>> It'd be interesting to try contacting ComponentOne directly with your story, and see
>> how they reply.  They very well may have a record of you having downloaded and
>> requested keys for it, and be willing to provide you with another download.  Other
>> than that, I'm pretty sure only "illicit" copies may be floating around, and I've
>> not even seen any of those for this.
>
>Yeah I don't really want to go looking for a "cracked" copy or
>anything illegal like that.  I figure that I obtained it legally for
>free before so if I can get it again from the same source then I
>should remain all legal.
>
>I do actually have access to the old PC that I had all my VB 6 stuff
>installed on.  I wonder if I can just copy certain files over?  Or was
>there a proper installation?  It was so long ago that I can't
>remember...

On May 22, 2:27 pm, "Nobody" <nob***@nobody.com> wrote:
> If you have your older computer hard drive, you can open its registry using
> Regedit. Here is how to do it, which is in the help file for Regedit:
>
> - Open Regedit.
> - Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
> - On the File menu, click Load Hive.
> - Browse to the registry files, which are located in:
>
> X:\WINDOWS\system32\config
>
> "Software" is the most important, it refers to HKLM\SOFTWARE.
>
> - Click Open.
> - In Key Name, type "OldHD", and then click OK.
>
> Now you can see and edit the entries as needed. When you are finished, use
> File-->Unload Hive, which saves the changes if any. This can be useful if
> you want to fix unbootable PC.
>
> If you want HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then browse to the following file:
>
> X:\Documents and Settings\<USER ID>\ntuser.dat

>On May 22, 2:27 pm, "Nobody" <nob***@nobody.com> wrote:
>> If you have your older computer hard drive, you can open its registry using
>> Regedit. Here is how to do it, which is in the help file for Regedit:
>>
>> - Open Regedit.
>> - Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
>> - On the File menu, click Load Hive.
>> - Browse to the registry files, which are located in:
>>
>> X:\WINDOWS\system32\config
>>
>> "Software" is the most important, it refers to HKLM\SOFTWARE.
>>
>> - Click Open.
>> - In Key Name, type "OldHD", and then click OK.
>>
>> Now you can see and edit the entries as needed. When you are finished, use
>> File-->Unload Hive, which saves the changes if any. This can be useful if
>> you want to fix unbootable PC.
>>
>> If you want HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then browse to the following file:
>>
>> X:\Documents and Settings\<USER ID>\ntuser.dat
>
>Thanks for that info, but I've already looked through the registry on
>the old PC and compared what I saw there with what's on my new PC (I
>did searches for "vsflexgrid" and "componentone").  I couldn't find
>anything that looked like it might be a license key.
>
>I'm still waiting to hear back from Component One's support people,
>hopefully they'll be able to give me a new serial number to replace
>the expired one I've got.