Hello all:

We will be upgrading to NT Workstation and I have to make our existing
applications work on the new systems.  AS far as i understand I simply have
to recompile my existing source code on a machine with NT Workstation and I
should be fine.  Please correct me if I am wrong.  Thank you.

ch

Chris,

Already!  You know that Windows 2000 Pro will be out in a few weeks,
right?  ;-)

What were you running before? Windows 9x? In that case, the
applications should (hopefully) work as they are, without a recompile.
If they don't, it's probably something in the application that isn't
supported in Windows NT, and then a simple recompile won't help
either.

Mattias

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Yep; VB masks all the differences for you when
using internal VB functionality. 3rd-party DLLs
and the API calls you use, and the behavior
they expect, is what causes incompatibilities.

On the bright side, moving from 95->NT is usually
easier. As long as you aren't relying on peculiarities
of the Win9x platforms (limited protection of memory,
things like that), your major concern will probably
be security. In 9x, you have access to everything;
in NT, never ask for more access thatn you need,
cause you probably won't get it if you aren't admin.

You shouldn't have to recompile at all.  I've developed under 95 and 98 -
and the apps have transferred to NT Workstation without any recompiling
or changes at all.

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 19:47:16 -0000, "Chris Shaw"

->You shouldn't have to recompile at all.  I've developed under 95 and
98 -
->and the apps have transferred to NT Workstation without any
recompiling
->or changes at all.
->

What was mentioned before was that the API's and registries don't
match between W9x and WinNT. Also NT has much tighter security (at
file level as well as the registry) so a file or registry key that
could be quite easily written to or read from under Win9x may generate
an error under NT.

Andrew Mitchell