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Visual Basic 6.0 IDE launch executes with Visual Studio 2005 resiliency

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Steps tried:

- Ran the VB 6.0 IDE and it started running the resiliency
- Let the Resiliency complete and then launched VB 6.0 still same issue
- Checked Event Viewer and saw 2 MSI warnings :

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 8/3/2009
Time: 11:57:23 AM
User: COBRA\Brian
Computer: COBRA
Description:
Detection of product '{1B041548-33BC-4174-8B97-ADC9B7948488}', feature 'VB_for_VS_7_Ent' failed during request for component '{DD68FEE8-C369-11D1-A173-00A0C90AB50F}'
For more information, see Help and Support Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1004
Date: 8/3/2009
Time: 11:57:23 AM
User: COBRA\Brian
Computer: COBRA
Description:
Detection of product '{1B041548-33BC-4174-8B97-ADC9B7948488}', feature 'Visual_Studio_Ent_Dev', component '{9C843E45-C138-43EE-A224-7DB2F4AE317E}' failed. The resource 'F:\' does not exist.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

- Took a Msiinv log ( To take Msiinv log you can use the steps mentioned - https://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/07/01/using-msiinv-to-gather-information-about-what-is-installed-on-a-computer.aspx )
- Searched for the component GUID {9C843E45-C138-43EE-A224-7DB2F4AE317E and '{DD68FEE8-C369-11D1-A173-00A0C90AB50F}'
- Product GUID is both the errors is the same '{1B041548-33BC-4174-8B97-ADC9B7948488}'
- Found that this GUID is for Visual Studio 2005
- Searched for this GUID on my own box opening VS2005 Setup using Orca tool
- Found that this is linked to MSADDNDR.DLL(C:\Program Files\Common Files\DESIGNER)
- Registered this DLL using regsvr32 MSADDNDR.DLL
- Now opened VB6.0 and it worked without any issues

Content by: Amit Sharma

Reviewed by: Soumitra Mondal