Comments for Visual Basic Feng Shui http://www.darinhiggins.com See and forget; hear and remember; do and understand Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:03:27 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 by admin http://www.darinhiggins.com/bookmarksave-addin-for-vb6/#comment-1287 admin Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:03:27 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/bookmarksave-addin-for-vb6/#comment-1287 Hi Chris Glad to hear it's working for you. Yes, I do plan on opening up the source. Just hadn't gotten to the point of cleaning it up yet. I'll give it a run through and post back here. I've also run into a couple issues I need to sort out as well, the primary one being that if you use the Alt-Up/Down to attempt to navigate through breakpoints while in run mode, the addin crashes. It doesn't take down VB, so that's good, but it shouldn't crash either. I'm guessing it's just a limitation of somethat that VB6 can't do in run mode, but I'll have to look into it further. Did you see my post about VB6 addins written in .net? <a href="http://www.darinhiggins.com/authoring-vb6-ide-addins-in-vb-net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.darinhiggins.com/authoring-vb6-ide-addins-in-vb-net/</a> That also might be a good starting point for a "Goto line number" addin. Hi Chris

Glad to hear it’s working for you. Yes, I do plan on opening up the source. Just hadn’t gotten to the point of cleaning it up yet. I’ll give it a run through and post back here.

I’ve also run into a couple issues I need to sort out as well, the primary one being that if you use the Alt-Up/Down to attempt to navigate through breakpoints while in run mode, the addin crashes. It doesn’t take down VB, so that’s good, but it shouldn’t crash either. I’m guessing it’s just a limitation of somethat that VB6 can’t do in run mode, but I’ll have to look into it further.

Did you see my post about VB6 addins written in .net?
http://www.darinhiggins.com/authoring-vb6-ide-addins-in-vb-net/

That also might be a good starting point for a “Goto line number” addin.

]]> Comment on BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 by Chris Nicholls http://www.darinhiggins.com/bookmarksave-addin-for-vb6/#comment-1286 Chris Nicholls Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:09:28 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/bookmarksave-addin-for-vb6/#comment-1286 Darren, thanks, this is brilliant. Works perfectly. Like you I've just had to pick up and old VB6 project and I'd forgotten quite how painful the IDE was. Would you consider releasing the source? I plan to write an addin to provide the perplexingly missing "go to line number" functionailty; your addin seems like it might be a good place to start. I would of course release my addin and its source for others including yourself to use. Darren, thanks, this is brilliant. Works perfectly.

Like you I’ve just had to pick up and old VB6 project and I’d forgotten quite how painful the IDE was.

Would you consider releasing the source? I plan to write an addin to provide the perplexingly missing “go to line number” functionailty; your addin seems like it might be a good place to start.

I would of course release my addin and its source for others including yourself to use.

]]> Comment on Using the RegEx feature of the File Class in the MSBuild Extension Pack by admin http://www.darinhiggins.com/using-the-regex-feature-of-the-file-class-in-the-msbuild-extension-pack/#comment-1278 admin Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:30:36 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2009/07/10/UsingTheRegExFeatureOfTheFileClassInTheMSBuildExtensionPack.aspx#comment-1278 Thanks! Glad it helped. That one had me stumped for a bit. Thanks! Glad it helped. That one had me stumped for a bit.

]]> Comment on Using the RegEx feature of the File Class in the MSBuild Extension Pack by Aaron DeMarre http://www.darinhiggins.com/using-the-regex-feature-of-the-file-class-in-the-msbuild-extension-pack/#comment-1277 Aaron DeMarre Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:40:04 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2009/07/10/UsingTheRegExFeatureOfTheFileClassInTheMSBuildExtensionPack.aspx#comment-1277 Thank you for this, it really helped a lot! Where the MSBuild AssemblyInfo task failed, this really came in handy. Thank you for this, it really helped a lot!

Where the MSBuild AssemblyInfo task failed, this really came in handy.

]]> Comment on Titans of Grammar by Squiggly Spell Checking in Notepad++ — Visual Basic Feng Shui http://www.darinhiggins.com/titans-of-grammar/#comment-1275 Squiggly Spell Checking in Notepad++ — Visual Basic Feng Shui Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:16:00 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2007/07/22/TitansOfGrammar.aspx#comment-1275 [...] However, a recent faux pas with a readme.txt that ended up with some nasty misspellings in it had me off to find something of a solution. I either had to give up Notepad++, or resolve this some other way. Misspellings are my priority 1000 issue! [...] [...] However, a recent faux pas with a readme.txt that ended up with some nasty misspellings in it had me off to find something of a solution. I either had to give up Notepad++, or resolve this some other way. Misspellings are my priority 1000 issue! [...]

]]> Comment on Configuring Log4Net in a .net VSTO Word Addin by Salsa Oudenaarde http://www.darinhiggins.com/configuring-log4net-in-a-net-vsto-word-addin/#comment-1272 Salsa Oudenaarde Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:52:12 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2010/06/10/ConfiguringLog4NetInANetVSTOWordAddin.aspx#comment-1272 Im grateful for the article post. Much obliged. Im grateful for the article post. Much obliged.

]]> Comment on Exposing C-Style Entry Points in a .net Assembly (revisited) by BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 — Visual Basic Feng Shui http://www.darinhiggins.com/exposing-c-style-entry-points-in-a-net-assembly-revisited/#comment-1268 BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 — Visual Basic Feng Shui Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:05:55 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/exposing-c-style-entry-points-in-a-net-assembly-revisited/#comment-1268 [...] a separate file. This is a technique I’ve worked on for quite some time, and talked about here, here, and here. Still need to get that article written up. Comments RSS Feed   Post a comment [...] [...] a separate file. This is a technique I’ve worked on for quite some time, and talked about here, here, and here. Still need to get that article written up. Comments RSS Feed   Post a comment [...]

]]> Comment on Authoring VB6 IDE Addins in VB.net by BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 — Visual Basic Feng Shui http://www.darinhiggins.com/authoring-vb6-ide-addins-in-vb-net/#comment-1267 BookmarkSave Addin for VB6 — Visual Basic Feng Shui Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:05:36 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/authoring-vb6-ide-addins-in-vb-net/#comment-1267 [...] If first blogged about this addin back here. [...] [...] If first blogged about this addin back here. [...]

]]> Comment on The VB6 CreateObject Function by Darin http://www.darinhiggins.com/the-vb6-createobject-function/#comment-1244 Darin Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:43:55 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2007/08/22/TheVB6CreateObjectFunction.aspx#comment-1244 Not a problem. Glad I could help. My take on installers is that you should strive to get your application to the point where you can do an xcopy install if you're an admin, but then rely on Windows Installer for those few bits you can't do if the user is NOT admin. And if you don't have an installer, check out Wise. I can't stand InstallShield. I also really like Innosetup and it's free, BUT, it doesn't make use of the Windows Installer service, so it can't register OCXs or COM DLLs when the installing user is not an ADMIN or poweruser. So that limits its usefulness a bit. Just depends on your audience. Not a problem. Glad I could help. My take on installers is that you should strive to get your application to the point where you can do an xcopy install if you’re an admin, but then rely on Windows Installer for those few bits you can’t do if the user is NOT admin.

And if you don’t have an installer, check out Wise. I can’t stand InstallShield.

I also really like Innosetup and it’s free, BUT, it doesn’t make use of the Windows Installer service, so it can’t register OCXs or COM DLLs when the installing user is not an ADMIN or poweruser. So that limits its usefulness a bit. Just depends on your audience.

]]> Comment on The VB6 CreateObject Function by th http://www.darinhiggins.com/the-vb6-createobject-function/#comment-1243 th Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:14:22 +0000 http://www.darinhiggins.com/2007/08/22/TheVB6CreateObjectFunction.aspx#comment-1243 Hi Thank you for the response its perfect, I think we will go down the route of an installer which we can the use the window installer service. Thank you for your response it has pointed us in the right direction Hi

Thank you for the response its perfect, I think we will go down the route of an installer which we can the use the window installer service. Thank you for your response it has pointed us in the right direction

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