I am trying to find Sheridan Controls 3.13 for a old VB6 project I need to open and convert. I used to have a registered version but I can't find where I archived them. Is there anyone who can provide me a copy?
That control is not free, so there is no legal way to get a free version. Sorry!
If the worst comes to the worst, you could buy it again. For instance it seems to be £319 (UK pounds) from Component Source at the time of typing.
If you have a receipt from when you originally purchased the control, the vendor might supply it to you again free of charge. Worth a try.
I eventually convinced infragistics to send it to me. They were a bit reluctant but they found my old record when I purchased them about 20 years ago.
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I've inherited a VB6 project from about 6-8 years ago. It uses SmartTabs and Smart OutlookBar, two licensed controls from Adroit Technologies that were shipped (in trial versions) with the original VB6.
Without licensing the controls I can't compile or debug the project, and although I've got the old license details, the license is tied to a specific development machine so they won't work for me (the original development machine has long since gone).
Adroit Technologies (AdroitTech.in) seems to have dropped off the radar, their contact details don't work and searches don't turn up anything.
Any ideas folks on how to get round this license issue?
Mike
Update: I've managed to edit the source code to eliminate the need for the SmartTabs control ... that just leaves the OutlookBar one to sort out!
I've now found another control in the project which has the same issues. This time called XE-Date and again from a defunct company. However, this one is relatively easy to replace using a mixture of standard controls.
We are working on a project that involves the conversion of old DOS based screen panels to Windows based graphical user interface using GUI Screen IO.
We got in touch with the company recently to purchase the software but company is apparently in transition of selling and have discontinued the business of providing the licensed S/W. So, we are unable to get a licensed copy of this GUI ScreenIO s/w which would impact our project.
Q -- Has anyone ever heard of another presentation layer s/w that is very similar to GUI ScreenIO and can work with native Cobol? Please let us know.
Thanks,
Kishan
Your info about the discontinuation of Gui ScreenIO comes a bit as a surprise to me.
I am a GuiScreenIO user myself and have heard nothing from the vendor about an end-of-life strategy, what so ever, and was billed for support just a few months ago!
If what you state is true (and I have no reason to doubt your writing), I will have to look for an alternative myself as well.
There is an alternative product called SP2 (Flexus) that has an approach comparable to GuiScreenIO. Since you are at the beginning of the character-based-to-windows-transition you might want to take a peek at it! ;)
Feel free to ask if you need more info about transitioning character based cobol applications to Windows.
Kind regards,
Paul
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I have a couple of decades of experience with VB6. I could share this knowledge with those people who are still asking questions about it: but I cannot test my code or confirm my thinking without a copy of the thing. I know it's very, very obsolete: but I lost my job last year due to disability, so I am coding at home.
I have the latest c#, obviously, in the form of the Express edition of the latest Visual Studio. But is VB6 available from any legitimate sources?
VB6 is available to MSDN subscribers
You can still buy original sealed copies on ebay. But the prices are still surprisingly high, probably due to the rarity and lack of MS support.
Have you considered switching to VBA instead? Modern MS Office versions have this installed as standard (I think) and according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications): "Microsoft has clearly stated that they have no plans to remove VBA from the Windows version of Office."
VBA is pretty close to VB6 apart from being able to compile it. But for syntax and general programming help I think it's still valid for testing out code samples and so forth.
Another thing you could try is to approach any schools, colleges or small businesses in your area. All three of these kinds of establishments are likely to have reasons to own legitimate copies of VB6 an have probably long since stopped using them but they may still be sat on a shelf gathering dust.
Schools and colleges love to sell off old assets because it keeps the accountants happy and frees up some forgotten cash to buy books and chalk with :). Perhaps you could offer to buy them at a low price. I'm sure they'll consider it.
I am trying to set up an automatic uninstaller for a program. basically I want the program to uninstall after a certain time has passed (lets say 1 year).
Is there any way I could do this? It would basically be a trial version of the software.
Sorry for not being specific about this but i just want some options on how I could do this easily.
Thank You in advance for your responses and sorry for my bad English.
I have never seen such a design. I suppose you could use a scheduled Windows task, but why do this? You can just have the application expire after a year and offer a button on launch to kick off the uninstaller? It can launch the uninstall asynchronously and shut down the application right away.
I have also never seen such a design, likely because it fails to consider several issues, namely how do you keep users from:
reinstalling it?
installing it on another machine, or on a VM with snapshots?
restoring a hard drive backup over it?
killing the uninstallation?
Software licensing is hard to get right. I would recommend using a third-party licensing package that offers trial licensing. I would avoid trying to roll your own solution, as it will likely take you a lot of time to develop and be ineffective nonetheless. Picking the right product for this depends on first answering some questions, though:
How a. skilled and how b. determined will the adversaries be who are costing you the most amount of financial loss? That is determined by:
How much money will you lose if you don't protect it? This should determine the next question, which is:
What is your budget for software protection? It should be less than the amount you would lose without it. This should include the next question, which is:
How many hours do you want to invest to get this working?
It sounds to me like you want an automated wrapper that will work with precompiled applications / installers, as opposed to using an SDK you must integrate into your code.
I have inherited a project from a client, who believes he has all the source code, but unfortunately this particular VB6 application used a bunch of custom controls that the original programmer will not give up (he may in fact have purchased the licenses himself, so he may be right in not turning them over, on the other hand since he has been cut-off from the project there may be a bit of spite involved - I have no idea and it doesn't really matter.)
Anyway, the project uses the following controls:
PVOutlookBar.ocx
PVList.ocx
PVCombo.ocx
PVXplore8.ocx
PVDateEdit.ocx
PVTime.ocx
PVDt80.ocx
and as far as I can tell they were from a company called Protoview which was bought up by Infragistics...and none of these controls are supported anymore, though they can be purchased at full price.
My client is very reluctant to spend over $1000 to get his hands on these controls, especially since
1) they are no longer supported at all by the vendor
2) we have no guarantee that if these are purchased that it will work (i.e. maybe there is a lot of other stuff missing too).
3) there are no refunds, even if we bought the wrong stuff...
4) we only need to get it running enough to start the port to a more updated language, either vb.net or C# (and thus would need to possibly buy the controls again).
My question is, is it legal if someone had these controls, and was no longer using them, to sell them? I would assume that the if you were no longer using a piece of software, you could transfer the license (the hope would be to find someone who has them lying around and would be willing to part with them for a lot less than buying the new).
Anyone know any sources for buying "old" software, especially controls such as these? I found Retrosoftware website (no longer operational) but they don't have any of the stuff I need.
Thanks.
I Am Not A Lawyer, but I think the legality of transferring a license depends on the original license terms for the controls used by ProtoView. Some licenses allow it and some explicitly forbid it.
Certainly the license agreement Infragistics is currently using does not allow you to transfer the license.