Can I use the newer versions of Visual Studio to do "old" things?
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I have several ATL/COM-based DLLs that I've been using Visual C++ 6.0 on. I require a couple of "old" things out of the generated DLLs:
(1) They must be compatible with projects developed in Visual Basic 6.0 (the old VB6, emphatically not VB.Net).
(2) They must be compatible with old operating systems - minimum Windows 98 SE. To be clear, I mean they must run on such OSes, not that I would have to be able to develop them on a machine running such an OS.
I am sick of Visual Studio 6.0. Converting to Dot Net (or any other major change like that) is out of the question at the current time, so I must continue to use VB6. But can I switch to the newer Visual Studio's C++, with a minimum of effort (i.e. little if any required recoding)?
If so, are there any "gotchas" I should watch out for?
Thanks.
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