by David Ross Goben (15 Submissions)
Category: Complete Applications
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Advanced
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(15 Votes)
This program consolidates a VB6 project into a much more tightly-controlled space. Often a project is composed of classes, forms, and modules that are located external to the project by which they are referenced. This can often present a problem when you want to send a copy of the project to a friend or reviewer or upload it to a source code dispersal site, but you forgot to copy the external file(s) to a local location. This program also allows you to copy the project to a new project parent folder. Version 1.1.0 introduced many new features, all geared toward making the use of this application much easier and smarter. It now has the ability to examine your VB project file and offer recommendations, which relieves you of most of the headaches and decisions required by previous versions. It will even create Classes, Forms, and Modules subfolders off of your Project folder for you if you ask it to. It also offers more help, more hand-holding, and clearer descriptions. Simply pointing at a file entry will tell you important information about what should be done with it. The VB Project Consolidator takes care of ALL these headaches with ease, to include reformatting the VBP project file so that all classes, modules, and forms are collected together by type and in consecutive order. Version 1.1.1 Adds File Zipping Capability (this actually makes it functionally equivalent to version 2.0.0 of the Professional (Office) Version). When the VB Project Consolidator has determined that all referenced classes, Forms, and Modules are localized to at least the Project folder (or in a branch descending from it), it enables project zipping from the Options menu. If the required VBZIP10.DLL is not present in the VB Project Consolidator program folder, you are offered instead the option to download it. Simply ensure that you are connected to the internet (the consolidator will also check this when you select the option) and select the "Download vbZip10.dll" item from the Options menu. Once the optional vbZip10.dll file is stored in the VB Project Consolidator program folder, then when you have a project localized to the project folder, you can select the "Zip up Project" item from the Options menu and a ZIP file will be created in your project folder, named the project file name with a ZIP extension. Note that any DLL or EXE will not be included in the zip, nor will any copy of project's zip file, if one exists from a previous session. Version 1.1.2 ensures previous zip versions are removed before creating a new one, plus added more code comments. It also added an option to include EXE and DLL files in the ZIP. Version 1.1.3 Corrected the Zipping to also include OCX files in the exclusion, along with EXE and DLL (forgot that one).
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