Issue about “please make sure the application for

问题:

I have a very old plug-in software developed in Visual Basic quite years ago, now its getting time to modify the copyright info. At this point, the issue is now that I was not the author so I don't know anything about it.

I have updated the source files which includes a SLN, VBP, WIP, MSI and so on, then I tried to use VS2008 to open the SLN file and after Conversion it given me a message "The project for XXX.wip is not installed, please make sure the application for the project (.wip) is installed", Apparently this is not right version to get going on.

Can everybody tell which VS version can proceed it? or any idea how I do this?

回答1:

You need VB6 to work on a VB6 program. Visual Studio 6.0 (98) contains the tools required.

回答2:

This sounds like the setup is built using the obsoleted Visual Studio Installer that is an addon application to Visual Studio for creating (VERY simplistic) MSI packages.

As it doesn't seem to be available any more, alrternatives are Inno Setup, WiX, or ClickOnce integrated into new versions of Visual Studio.