XMP Toolkit & Visual Studio 6.0

Question

Hi!
I'm a software developper from Germany and got started into XMP a couple of days ago. With Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, everything works fine (I compiled the sources and received the lib files as static libraries which I can use for my code).
Does it also work with Visual Studio 6.0? I tried it, but a "LNK1196: invalid or corrupt import object: unknown version" error is shown then, I suppose you can't use lib files created in 2005 for 6.0. Has anybody successfully used the XMP Toolkit on this version?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Tutorial: How to install Visual Studio 6 With Service Pack 5 on Windows Vista RTM
- If you use Visual Studio.NET, do not install Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 or 2008 first. If you do, this tutorial will not work. You must install them in this order...
1. Visual Studio 6.0
2. Service Pack 5
3. Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 or 2008
- Right click on Setup.EXE from the Visual Studio 6 CD (MSVS98) and choose 'Run As Administrator' (take note it doesn't matter if your user is already an administrator you still must 'Run as Administrator')
- You may encounter some strange 'Yes/No' questions which you may not know the answers to that have not prompted you during Visual Studio Setup before. I don't remember what I clicked exactly, but I remember one of them said 'Do you want to overwrite your 'blah blah' settings?' and I clicked 'No'.
- You will need to reboot twice during installation
- Before running Service pack 5 setup, you must make modifications to the file 'sp598ent.stf' here's how to do that (note some of the spaces have been truncated, try to not remove the extra space in the stf file when modifying it. If you do, this will not work at all, and you'll get a "Setup Damaged" error)...
Step 1) Open C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf with 'Notepad.exe'
Step 2) Replace the following line
13 Group 28 36 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43
-with-
13 Group 28 38 29 30 32 26 27 14 25 16 17 20 18 19 15 39 21 22 24 23 43
Step 3) Delete the following lines leaving only a carriage return where it was
36 Depend "27 ? : 37"
37 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC"
Step 4) Save and close C:\ServicePack5Dir\sp598ent.stf
- Once you are done with that, you must run right click 'setupsp5.exe' and choose 'Run as Administrator' (if you do not run as administrator it will not work)
- Service Pack 5 Setup should work fine now.