> I've tried to run trivial ATL, MFC, Win32 VC7 applications on a system
where
> the .Net Framework is not installed. Having copied a few dlls the
> applications required into the appropriate folder, everything works
fine.
> Is this safe? What are the extents of this sort of operation? We've a
a VB
> project where some of the COM DLLs are implemented in VC6. We're
considering
> the use of VC7 for further DLL development.

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>> I've tried to run trivial ATL, MFC, Win32 VC7

>where
>> the .Net Framework is not installed. Having copied a
few dlls the
>> applications required into the appropriate folder,
everything works
>fine.
>> Is this safe? What are the extents of this sort of
operation? We've a
>a VB
>> project where some of the COM DLLs are implemented in
VC6. We're
>considering
>> the use of VC7 for further DLL development.

>Perfectly fine, no problems.  The only thing to be aware
of is that
>VC7-compiled DLLs will use msvcr70.dll instead of

>mfc70.dll instead of mfc42.dll, etc - make sure you

>VC7 redistributables in your installation and you
shouldn't have any
>problem.   VB6 can load COM DLLs developed with VC7 with
no problems.

>-cd

> Can this also be done with the mscoree.dll residing in the
> system32 directory?