>>>>I received my copy of visual studio 6.0 today and was wondering about installation. Is it better to uninstall all my other packages before hand or install over the current versions. Any help would be appreciated as I hope to avoid any problems that maybe someone has found out during installation.
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>>>VS will prompt you to uninstall previous versions. If you don't need to maintain code in the previous version, you can have it uninstall. If you need to keep older code, uncheck the uninstall options and put VS 6.0 in a different directory.
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>>Does having both VFP5.0a and VFP6.0 running on the same computer cause any problems?
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>It is possible that new versions of some of the ActiveX controls can be a problem, but you can delete the old one from your VFP 5.0 project and then add the new one and it seems to clear it up. Other than that, I'm not aware of anything. VFP 6.0 understand VFP 5.0 binaries, so you don't have problems sharing DBCs like exist between VFP 3.0 and 5.0.

Thanks I think I will let them cohabitate on my machine for awhile at least. I knew that that 8GB hard drive would come in handy for something:)