Acts as a C style project explorer for the active VB project.
Shows Enums, Declares, Property, Function, Sub
Highlights incorrect nesting in red.
Allows you to expand/contract nodes to view the code flow.
Clicking on a node will open that module and goto the selected line
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Roger, Excellent job! Looks great and works just as good. I was hoping to do this sort of addin myself. I really like VC++'s explorer and wanted VB to have the same. Thanks, this just saved me some work. :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is very nice. It could use a couple minor refinements, but overall it is a great idea, and very useful. Good work. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
The name should be changed to Godsend Code Validator! Great Job! .... And in response to your question regarding the loading, yes. I think loading the each module when it is expanded and/or a refresh button would be a great addition. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I think this is one of the best submissions on PSC! But because I'm so thick (to be fair, I've never seen a VB Add-In before) I don't know how to use this. I tried to add it but VB said "VBCodeAddIn.dll is not a valid Visual Basic add in". Can you please tell me how I add this to my VB? I have VB6. Thanks. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Thanks for your help, I got it working! This is brilliant, I give out excellent votes too easily, but this really does deserve 5/5. I'm going to try and make my first Add-In, thanks to your example. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Same problem here as Simon Price. I'd really love to see it work, it looks great. Thanks in advance for the help. I'll give you an excelent now cause everyone else loves it and they can't all be wrong :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Downloaded project, compiled it and tried to use it with your .vbp project as an example and got message "Type Mismatch" when using the Add-in Mnager to load it. Tried it on several other projects however and it works just fine. Thanks for a fantastic add-id. Just started playing with C++ and was overjoyed to see a VB version of its explorer (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Excellent...One more suggestion, if we could able to copy the structer....it will be very nice. Pls try to add the facility to print the explorer (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
A nice piece of code, but much of the credit belongs to Steve McMahon of vbaccelerator.com.
If you take the time to remove the "author's" system dependencies from CodeViewerAddIn.vbp it will load and run just fine (assuming you have all the required MSOffice and VB files).
5 of the 7 modules were written by Steve, including: MSubclass & ISubclass from Steve's SSubTmr.DLL sample, and cNCMetrics & cPopupMenu from his Popup Menu ActiveX DLL. I'm not sure what sample mAPIAndCallbacks came from but it still has Steve's copyright notice in the Declarations.
I presume that docAddin was authored by Roger Willcocks and it does glue it all together. Something blue-screens Win98SE but do I blame Steve or Roger?
Steve is not particularily demanding of credit (see "About" on his web-site) but lets give credit where credit is due.
Bob Hamilton
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You are quite correct about Steve McMahon, who writes great code. I was under the impression that I had mentioned that the popup menus (which those 5 modules you mention are all required for) where his.
If not, well I guess I'm saying so now :)
In fact, the entire point of the addin was to validiatethe code structure. I only added the pop-up afterwards to replicate some of the functionality of the original project explorer.
I'm not actually sure what some of the references are doing in this copy, so I'll re-upload this I think. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is sooo sweet...I've never seen C++ explorer but after using Query Analyzer for SQL Server 2000 VB was becoming a pain in the butt without one. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Great work! A couple of additions might be useful: 1. When you click on a line entry in the tree, it should highlight the line in the code. 2. A refresh button. 3. The ability to right click a variable, constant, or other in the tree and be able to insert the text into the code.
Other than these few suggestions I like it very much!! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Wow - nice piece of work! It crashes from time to time - but only with all the const's [I have] shown. Very handy! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is real useful, your code looks good. Wonder why MS didn't include it in the VBE. 5 globes from me. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I've never used C++ before but this addin is extremely usefull. Makes it heaps easier to find out what my code is doing. Five globes from me. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
does anyone mind telling me how to load this thing? i am so curious but i can get this thing to load? can anyone please help? hope to hear from you soon have a nice day rafael (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
greeeaaat job, do give you a lot of probs for the time and effort put into the coding of the project. keep up the good work, and good luck to you in the future (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Very nice man! Though it can be pretty slow on my "poor" 2ghz (if there are more than 1000 lines of code) :D, but still great! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
WOW that what i want! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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