http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25367
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com changed:
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--- Comment #10 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-12-12 14:37:15 CST --- vbrun60 is not really a dirty way; it's the only way because implementing the visual basic runtime is out of scope for the wine project. It is in fact safe (modulo EULA concerns) to always run winetricks vbrun60 when creating a wineprefix, but it's not something wine's going to do for you.
Now, you said that the app worked perfectly in wine-1.2. Please retest by installing wine-1.2, deleting or renaming your ~/.wine directory, and installing the app afresh. If it works, then probably the app bundles the vb runtime, and newer wine is botching its install or something. But it seems more likely that it won't work, and it used to work because you had installed the vb runtime before but forgotten about it.
If that's the only verb needed, and the app really doesn't bundle that library, then this bug can be marked invalid for now.