[dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

Charlotte Foust cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Oct 11 11:15:40 CDT 2007


But I thought you were trying to add your other project to a solution,
not just a specific class.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:12 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

Hmmm... If you "add existing" a file Find dialog opens.  At the bottom
of THAT is an ADD button which has a little drop down to the right of
it.  If you drop that down a "LINK option".  If you select "LINK" then
it adds the module as a link instead of importing it directly into the
project. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:58 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

You're talking about two different things.  Open is a menu item under
the file menu.  That's what Doris was referring to, I think.

Charlotte Foust 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:39 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

Doris,

OK, I finally figured out how to do what you are talking about.  It is
actually the "ADD" button which threw me for awhile, I kept going back
and forth searching diligently for this "OPEN" button.

Anyway, that is handled.  So if I open a linked file, I am opening the
actual source out in the lib and if I edit it, the changes are stored in
that module in that lib?  

This works for me! 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doris Manning
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:51 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

John,

When you add an existing item to a project and press the OPEN button,
you are actually importing the module from its existing location into
the project location.  

If you click on the small black arrow on the far right of the OPEN
button, you have a "Link file" choice.  Choosing this option adds the
module to your project but keeps it in its existing location.  Any
projects that link to it will instantly inherit the changes but will
need to be rebuilt so the executable picks up the changes.

Doris Manning
Database Administrator
Hargrove Inc.  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:15 AM
To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-VB] VB.Net - Using modules in other projects

I am developing modules that I need to use in various projects.  This
includes things like a status form with specific controls and code to
display status updates from operations, and base classes for making
another class serializable.  Stuff like that.  

I need to know what the process is for making such objects accessible to
other projects such that as I add capabilities and fix bugs, such
enhancements are available to all the other projects that use these
things.
IOW, something similar to an MDA in Access.  I know that it is possible,
I just do not understand the mechanics of referencing the common
objects.

Could someone give me a detailed "step by step" of how to do it, what to
click, select this menu item, click this etc. from inside of the
referencing project.  Or alternately a web article that discusses this
stuff.

TIA,

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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