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mwb1100
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Posted - Jun 21 2016 :  02:08:57 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have recently had reason to do some stuff in VC6 again. I noticed that VAX wasn't showing up in the UI, so I reinstalled VA_X_Setup2102.exe - both as non-admin (elevating when asked) and as admin.

Neither helped.

I have also tried looking in Tools/Customize.../Toolbars for a "ToolbarX" entry that needed to be enabled, and I have looked in the Tools/Customize.../Commands/Category drop-down for an "Add-ins" item with VAX commands. Nothing useful was found there.


Any ideas (keeping in mind that it's not super important because I hope to not have a need to keep working in VC6 for too long)?

I'm running on Win7 x64 SP1 in case that matters.

Edited by - mwb1100 on Jun 21 2016 02:10:46 AM

feline
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Posted - Jun 21 2016 :  1:29:31 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You need to run the installer as Admin for VC6, but you have already done that. Can you run the installer please, and check the first screen.

Is the check box for "Pre-2010 versions of Microsoft Visual Studio" enabled and checked? If not, then VA won't even attempt the install.

Can you please look and see if you have the directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist
this is the default install directory for VA for VC6. This folder should have 18 items, 7 folders and 11 files.

How are you loading VC6? Passing any command line parameters?

Have you renamed "msdev.exe"? Or is this still the file name you launch when you load VC6?

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mwb1100
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Posted - Jun 22 2016 :  03:07:21 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The "Pre-2010 versions..." box was checked when installing (and VAX is working in VS 2003).

Here is the contents of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist"


 Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist

06/20/2016  10:59 PM    <DIR>          .
06/20/2016  10:59 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/20/2016  10:59 PM    <DIR>          1033
06/20/2016  10:59 PM    <DIR>          about
04/01/2014  12:12 AM    <DIR>          AutoText
04/01/2014  12:12 AM    <DIR>          Dict
08/19/2015  11:38 AM             8,179 LICENSE.TXT
04/01/2014  12:12 AM    <DIR>          Misc
06/20/2016  10:47 PM    <DIR>          OptionsHelp
09/24/2013  09:43 PM           311,808 SciLexer.dll
06/20/2016  10:59 PM    <DIR>          TipOfTheDay
06/20/2016  10:59 PM           107,008 uninstall.exe
06/20/2016  10:59 PM           106,400 uninstall.ini
06/02/2016  12:05 PM           152,064 VANetObjMD.dll
06/02/2016  12:06 PM         2,708,480 VAOpsWin.dll
06/02/2016  12:06 PM           403,968 VaPkg.dll
06/02/2016  12:06 PM         2,166,272 VAssist.dll
06/02/2016  12:06 PM           312,320 VAssistNET.dll
06/02/2016  12:06 PM         2,392,576 VATE.dll
06/02/2016  12:09 PM         9,103,160 VA_X.dll
              11 File(s)     17,772,235 bytes


And I'm launching VC6 via the start menu shortcut which is a link to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\MSDEV.EXE".
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feline
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Posted - Jun 22 2016 :  12:56:38 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
All of this looks right and normal. I assume you are not getting any error messages or warnings during the install? You are being far to clear not to have mentioned them.

I am guessing either a problem registering one of the dll's, or a dependency problem that is stopping VA from loading. First, lets try manually registering the dll's.

First make sure that all instances of the IDE have been closed, and there are no instances of "msdev.exe" running in the background.

Now please open a command prompt with Admin rights, "run as administrator" may be required

cd to the VA X installation directory: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist\"
regsvr32 VA_X.dll
regsvr32 vassist.dll


after each call to regsvr32 please wait for the message box confirming this worked, or an error message, before moving on. If both calls to regsvr32 succeed then VA should be installed correctly and working when you load VC6.

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mwb1100
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Posted - Jul 03 2016 :  01:43:57 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have tried those steps with no success. I have also uninstalled VC6, rebooted and reinstalled VC6 and still can't get VAX to work in it.

However like I mentioned earlier, I just don't use VC6 anymore except for very infrequent oddball situations. It really doesn't make sense for me )or you) to spend more any effort on this.

Thanks for your help.
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feline
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Posted - Jul 05 2016 :  1:49:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sorry this is not working, these steps should have at least offered some clues. We can keep looking at this if you are interested. The next step would be to see if you have the file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\DEPENDS.EXE

if so, please run this, then open the two files:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist X\VA_X.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Assist X\VAssist.dll

and see if any clues as to missing dependencies come up. For me, I get a list of dependencies on VAssist.dll, but I just get an error on VA_X.dll, where depends does not think this is a valid Win32 module.

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