Don't do it if you have Visual C++ projects in previous versions.

One big problem I had was that VS6 changed all MFC*.* files (same file names, new versions) and my VC++ projects simply don't work with these new files. There's a screen at the beggining of the installation saying that you can install VS6 in a different directory and everything will be fine, but this is not true (some other people told me that they had the same problems I had).

Besides that, VC6 installs some very neat new tools (although I had problems with Visual Analyser which slowed down seriously my computer). One of them (sorry I forgot its name) allows you to see all dlls/components used by an exe, all the functions in any dll, etc. Really neat and with a very prcatical UI.

Finally, I had to reinstall VS97 because not all members of the team can change it now.

Vlad

>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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>TIA