You'll need three things to get this program working on your machine:

VB 6 runtime files
MSCOMCTL.OCX
COMDLG32.OCX

You can get the vb6 runtime files from
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];vbruntime&
The other two can probably be found with a search for them.

The problem with the other two is that you typically need to register
them with the system.  This is usually done via an installer, but they
do not provide one.  You might have luck putting them in the same
directory as the EXE.

If that fails, look for a file on your system called "REGSVR32.EXE".
You can move the OCX files to the system directory, then run regsvr32
with the file's full path and name.  It'll tell you once they are
registered.

As far as your first question, yes, they expect most developers playing
around with these app notes to have VB installed.

Good luck!

-Adam

Lyle Hazelwood wrote:

>Hi Piclisters,
>While in the midst of trying to write a CAN bootloader, I found
>Microchip AN247, a CAN bootloader design and software package.
>
>Lucky for me, their schematic is almost identical to the board I have
>built for this project.
>
>I DL'ed the ZIP and unpacked it easily enough. I tried to start their
>PC side software, apparently written in Visual Basic, and I just can't
>get the executable to open.
>
>I am assuming that the exe file would not require me to purchase visual
>basic to run it. I do have Visual C++ on this machine, with visual studio.
>
>If anyone on the list either knows enough about VB to know what I'm
>missing, or better yet if someone has sucessfully run the software from
>AN247, I'd love to find out what I'm doing wrong.
>
>Thanks Thanks,
>Lyle
>
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