Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly

[Ian MacLean]

Sure I do. I'm probably just in a different timezone to you :)
Ian
Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:
Cheers mate! Don't you ever sleep?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 1:55 PM
To: Subbu Balakrishnan
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly
Thanks Subbu,
I hadn't seen that article before. It looks really good. I've added a 
link to the nant wiki at:
http://nant.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/NAntUsage

Guis's pages were already linked.

Thanks again.
Ian
Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:

 

Hi Ian

You may want to consider linking to an excellent article on NAnt at
http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=NAnt - this
   

article
 

is by far the best I have encountered - specially as far as writing one's
own tasks are concerned. It, in effect, kick-started my NAnt task-building
involvement. 

I also found Guiseppe Greco's doco at
http://developer.agamura.com/technotes/building-projects-with-nant/ a nice
formal, but very useful document - another worthwhile read.
Thanks and regards
Subbu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:10 PM
To: Subbu Balakrishnan
Subject: Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly
Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:



   

Thanks for the excellent turnaround! 



  

     

no problem. I'd just been looking at that code yesterday so it was a 
very quick fix.



   

I am looking at using the vb6 task to do our 250+ component build so
     

expect
 

some more feedback in the near future. 

  

     

keep it coming. It good to know some of these tasks are getting pushed a 
bit so we know we're finding the bugs in them.



   

Some of the lads find it amusing that
I am using new technology (.NET) to build old (VB6). NAnt and NAntContrib
bring so much out-of-the-box that it seems a shame to re-invent a less
capable "pretender"!


  

     

Best tool for the job and all that. I originally wrote the vb6 task  
because I had the memory of managing a large build of mixed vb6 and vc++ 
6 with a collection of batch files <shudder>. I think also a lot of 
people are retaining old vb components and talking to them via interop 
so it makes sense to be able to have a unified build environment.

Ian



   

Regards
Subbu
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 4:47 PM
To: Subbu Balakrishnan
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly
Thanks Subbu,
Changes committed. Thats 3 bug reports this week for the vb6 task.
Ian

Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:



  

     

I noticed two issues here:
[1] ActiveX Control references are not catered for i.e "Object={some guid
..." lines in the VB6 project file.
[2] "referenceRegEx" returns incorrect values for "majorver", "minorver"
 

    

       

and

  

     

"lcid"

I have made the following modifications and they fix the problems
    

       

mentioned

   

above:

--->Replace (line 329)
  Regex referenceRegEx = new
Regex(@"Reference\s*=\s*\*\\G{(?<tlbguid>[0-9\-A-Fa-f]*($^\.)*)}\#(?<majo
       

r
 

    

       

v

   

 

    

       

e

  

     

r>[0-9\.0-9($^\.)*]*)\#(?<minorver>[0-9]($^\.)*)\#(?<tlbname>.*)\#");
--->With
  Regex referenceRegEx = new
Regex(@"(Object|Reference)\s*=\s*({|\*\\G{)(?<tlbguid>[0-9\-A-Fa-f]*($^\.
       

)
 

    

       

*

   

 

    

       

)

  

     

}\#(?<majorver>[0-9($^\.)*]*)\.(?<minorver>[0-9]($^\.)*)\#(?<lcid>[0-9]($
       

^
 

    

       

\

   

 

    

       

.

  

     

)*)(;|\#)(?<tlbname>.*)");

--->Replace (line 355)
  else if (key == "Reference") {
--->With
  else if (key == "Object" || key == "Reference") {
--->Add the line
  tlbName = tlbName.Trim('\0');
--->After the line (386)
  QueryPathOfRegTypeLib(ref guid, majorVer, minorVer, lcid, out
tlbName);
To remove trailing null chars else the File.Exists call that follows
 

    

       

returns

  

     

false even the file exists.

Regards
Subbu Balakrishnan


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