I am currently running Windows For Workgroups 3.11 in a virtual machine. I took visual basic in school a few years ago and havent really touched it for a while but wanted to design some apps from WFW.. So i found MB VB4 disk and was about to instal it in my virtual machine and suddenly remembered that it came in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. I remembered i once read that the 32-bit version could also be installed on Win3x if the Win3x was running WIN32s.. So I downloaded n installed WIN32s and tested the instal with the supplied 32-bit Frecell app.. Every thing appeared to be fine. I was like, "Awesome!" I then proceeded to run the 32-bit VB4 setup file from the run command and got the following message:

Setup Intialization Error
This Setup program is not intended to be used with your version of Windows.

Can anyone confirm for me that VB4 32-bit can be run in Windows 3x using WIN32s?

If yes, how?

If no, why not?

If no, would it be possible to do so using a DOS Extender Such as Pharlap's? I have heard of this but so far have no experience with the Phalap DOS extenders.

Sorry so long... Thanks In advance!

You cannot run the 32 Bit version of VB4 on Windows 3.1, there are just to many incompatibilities.

Win32s is only a small subset of the 32 bit environment. What you can do is run 32 bit application developed on a 32 bit machine in Windows 3.1 but that is about all and even some of them wont work.

It is like trying to develop a .NET application on Windows 98. You cant but you can run .NET applications on Windows 98.

Stuart