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Are only basic VB6 Applications running on WIN8? Are any API's different in use like GDI+, Keyhooks, FileSystem or RtlMoveMemory Apis.
VB6 is x86, Win8 is x64.
I already read: VB6 Running on Windows 8?
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The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported as of April 8, 2008.
VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats. Here is how to install it: Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA. DLL .
APIs, short for "application programming interface", allows you to access a wide array of functions and methods exposed by the operating system or other applications (DLLs), performing operations not normally implemented by the standard virtual machine that Visual Basic provides.
Various factors contribute to an impetus to shift away from VB6. Risk of Obsolescence: Since 2008, the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported by Windows Operating systems. While most runtime files are still supported, it is unlikely that continued functionality will be offered by Microsoft in the future.
Windows 8 does not change the basic APIs for Windows desktop apps. (except, of course for Windows RT)
Future versions of Windows also won't; any changes to those APIs would break compatibility with all existing applications.
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