Component management

[Gerry Laenen]

Hi,

I am currently working on a massive project: several ActiveX dll's have been
written, using several references etc. It's a multi-tier environment. When I
have to change something in the lowest tier, all the tiers above have to
modified: remove old reference, save, include new reference, recompile. For
the layer above that, I have to do the same. Is there a tool which can
handle this? So, where you can recompile the whole model entirely because it
is a lot of work now.

Thanks for your answers,

Gerry

[Willy Van den Driessche]

Re: Component management

Yes there are tools that do this. However, I think you are missing one of
the nice things about VB. In VB you can built true components. The only
reason to recompile a component is when it's source changes. What you
should do, especially on larger projects is have a look at binary
compatibility. Unlike any other programming environment, binary
compatibility keeps the new version of the component compatible with the old
version. In effect this means that all components built upon it should not
be recompiled at all. They just start using the new version.
My own comments on this are at
http://users.skynet.be/wvdd2/Compiling/compiling.html , but there's plenty
of other material.
--
For a work in progress :

http://users.skynet.be/wvdd2/

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