Visual Studio 6.0 support on future MS os

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abrtlt@yahoo.com - 01 Mar 2005 17:26 GMT

Apologies for what might appear a dumb question, but I do not usually
write software for Windows systems...
I develop C++ applications on Linux and I am considering a tool for
cross platform development. As I shall be porting to Windows only a few
relatively simple applications, I do not intend to upgrade my Visual
C++ 6 to the .NET version.

Can I expect future versions of Microsoft operating systems to run
executables compiled by Visual C++ 6?

Thanks!

Andrew

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Phil Wilson - 01 Mar 2005 21:34 GMT

AFAIK MS has no requirement that you recompile your programs, so IMO you
should expect your programs to work fine. The real issue is what do you do
if there's a problem and it's related to the compiler, because VC++ 6.0 is
terminating support (mainstream support already finished, extended support
finishes Sep 2005).
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifedevtoolfam

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> Apologies for what might appear a dumb question, but I do not usually
> write software for Windows systems...
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> Andrew

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