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Cannot find VBRUN300.DLL.

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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:

Is Visual Basic 6 still supported on Windows 8?

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Question:

Is Visual Basic 6 still supported on Windows 8?

Answer:

Yes and no. Yes, the runtime and extended runtime files are supported on Windows 8 and will likely also be supported on Windows 10. The IDE however is not supported and does not run in Windows 8. Running a Virtual Machine with Windows 7 maybe one of the only options to run the IDE in modern OS’s.