How to Install Oracle Developer Suite 10g on Windows Vista / 7?

When you try to install Oracle Developer Suite on your windows Vista or Windows 7 PC but it’s failing giving an error message "Checking Operating system version must be 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2..... Actual 6.0 or 6.1 - Failed"

What will you do?

Don’t worry, simply follow the following steps, and it will works.

Before installation, right click on setup.exe then click properties, from the tab select compatibility and select windows xp service pac3/pac2 from compatibility mode settings.

Click ok…

And now try to install... it works

How to Compile All Oracle Forms(.fmb to .fmx) Together ?

You need to write a script on the operating system to call "frmcmp" executable.

1.Pls open a note pad and paste the following lines...

::compile_forms.bat

cls

Echo compiling Forms....

for %%f IN (*.fmb) do frmcmp.exe userid=user_name/password@db  module=%%f batch=yes

    module_type=form compile_all=yes window_state=minimize

ECHO FINISHED COMPILING

2. change the user name , password and the database alias accordingly...
3. Pls save the file with a name.bat then...
4.put this file in the forms folder then...
5.Double click on that batch it will compile all the forms in that folder consequently...