Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL.

Scenario:

An application your using throws the following error.

Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL.

History:

“VBRUN300.dll” was one of the necessary files needed to run an application compiled under Visual Basic 3.x. Visual Basic 3.x was a 16-bit development environment that could run on operating systems as early as Windows 3.0/3.1 and continued to be supported into the 32-bit Windows OS’s as far as Windows 7.

Solution:

The first for this error is to included the necessary files in the same directory as the executable in question. Microsoft still provides these files for download at: