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From: Branco on 5 Apr 2010 11:03
Hi all,

I have a VB.Net application which I need to test on Windows98.

Even though the application runs fine in the client system -- at
least, no visual glitches -- there's some functionality lacking in
Win98 that prevents the application from performing all of its tasks,
and I must come up with a series of tests to detect where these system
calls are failing and provide a non-system alternative in the
aplication in order for it to work as expected.

Since the client's is a production machine, I need a separate
environment to perform the tests that I need. Thus the setup of Win98
in Virtual PC. I'm running VPC in a 64 bits Win7 laptop. This is *not*
the XP mode version of Virtual PC, it's the regular 64 bits SP1
version.

The Win98 virtual machine seems to be running ok, I can access the
network and run a few apps. But when I run my dotnet app, the
application's display comes up completely messed up, with text fields
in duplicate places, picture boxes that only show partially, labels
displaying a weird gradient tone, in other words, a real mess.

Since the application runs without these problems in a non-virtual
Win98 system, it seemed to me it could be VPC related.

Any ideas? (no, I can't upgrade the client's system, not even to XP,
unfortunately).

Best regards,

Branco
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