Description of projects that are stored on a network share and that are not supported in Visual Basic 6.0 (832677)

INTRODUCTION

When you work with a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 project on a network share, or when you compile the Visual Basic 6.0 project to a network location, you may experience performance problems or build problems.

MORE INFORMATION

Visual Basic 6.0 is not specifically designed to access projects or to build projects that are stored on a network drive or on a network share. Visual Basic 6.0 does not perform any special operations for handling network drives and network shares. Visual Basic 6.0 does recognize if a file is on a network drive or if the file is on a local drive.

Microsoft recommends that you use source code control software to obtain a local copy of the project files that you want to use with Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is source code control software that is optimized for use with Visual Basic 6.0. There are other third-party source code control software packages that are available, but the third-party source code control software packages may not be optimized for use with Visual Basic 6.0. Therefore, you may experience performance problems. In this case, contact the vendor of the third-party source code control software package if you need help.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

142517 INFO: VB doesn't support administrator or network installation

For additional information about opportunistic locks, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/opportunistic_locks.asp