HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

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SUMMARY

This article shows you how to tell if you have a Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack installed in your System. The way to determine if a service pack is installed is by checking the version number of specified binary files. The binary files and version numbers to check are listed in this article.

For additional information on Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, including where to get them, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, and Why


MORE INFORMATION

The Help About dialog box shows the initial version number of the product and does not change when you install a service pack.

To determine if a service pack has been installed on a particular computer, find one of the files for the appropriate developer product and check the version number. If the version number matches the number in the service pack column, then the service pack has been installed. This is not a complete list of files from Service Pack 3, but rather this is a list that shows a representative sample of the changes from product release to each service pack. Note that for several products, there were no changes in Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2. 


Visual Studio 6.0 Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
Oleaut32.dll      2.30.4261    2.30.4265       2.40.4268       2.40.4275.1
Olepro32.dll      5.00.4261    5.00.4265       5.00.4268       5.0.4275.1
Asycfilt.dll      2.30.4261    2.30.4265       2.40.4268       2.40.4275.1
Stdole2.tlb       2.30.4261    2.30.4265       2.40.4268       2.40.4275.1
 

Visual Basic 6.0  Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
Msvbvm60.dll      6.00.8176    6.00.8268       Unchanged       6.0.8482
 

Visual C++ 6.0    Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
Mfc42.dll         6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfc42d.dll        6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfc42u.dll        6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfc42ud.dll       6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfcd42d.dll       6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfcd42ud.dll      6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfcn42d.dll       6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfcn42ud.dll      6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfco42d.dll       6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Mfco42ud.dll      6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     Unchanged       6.0.8447.0
Msvcrt.dll        6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     6.00.8337.0     6.0.8397.0
Msvcrtd.dll       6.00.8168.0  6.00.8267.0     6.00.8337.0     6.0.8447.0
 

Visual J++ 6.0    Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
Classd.exe        5.00.2922    5.00.2925       5.00.3161       5.0.3176.0
Classr.exe        5.00.2922    5.00.2925       5.00.3161       5.0.3176.0
Msjavx86.exe      5.00.2922    5.00.2925       5.00.3161       5.0.3176.0
Msvj98.dll        6.00.8169    Unchanged       6.01.8349       6.1.8424
Msvj98ui.dll      6.00.8167    Unchanged       6.01.8349       Unchanged
Jvc.exe           6.00.8167    Unchanged       6.00.8343       6.00.8424
 

Visual InterDev 6.0 Release    Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
viddbpkg.dll      6.0.0.8161   Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.0.8450 
viddbui.dll       6.0.0.8159   Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.0.8450 
vidisws.dll       6.0.0.8169   Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.0.8450
 

Visual FoxPro 6.0 Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
foxhhelp.exe      6.0.8161.0   Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.8450.0 
vfp6.exe          6.0.8167.0   Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.8492.0
 

Visual SourceSafe Release      Service Pack 1  Service Pack 2  Service Pack 3
File Name         Version      Version         Version         Version
 
analyze.exe       6.0.8169     Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.8383 
ssapi.dll         6.0.8169     Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.8383 
ssrestor.exe      6.0.8169     Unchanged       Unchanged       6.0.8383 

To Find the Version Number

  1. In the System directory, find the appropriate file.


  2. Right-click the file to display the Pop-up menu.


  3. In the Pop-up menu, click Properties. The Properties window appears.


  4. In the Properties window, click the Version tab to display the version information for the file.


  5. Click OK to close the Properties window.



REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q193009 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 1 Readme

Q214591 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 2 Readme

Q230722 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 1 - Overview and Installation

Q230724 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 2 - Visual Studio

Q230726 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 3 - Visual Basic

Q230727 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 4 - Visual C++

Q230729 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 5 - Visual FoxPro

Q230730 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 6 - Visual InterDev

Q230731 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 7 - Visual J++

Q230732 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 8 - Visual SourceSafe

Q230733 Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 Readme Part 9 - File Versions

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

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Keywords          : kbservicepack kbSSafe600 kbVBp600 kbVC600 kbVFp600 kbVJ600 kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3 kbInetDev 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0 SP3
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: July 7, 1999