How to add references to a VB6 or VBA project programaticall

Juan Dent · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4

Hi,

I know well how to add a reference to a VB6 or VBA project interactively via
the menu. What I need is how to add a reference (or remove it)
programatically - that is, if I was driving VB6 or controlling VBA.

Anyone?
--
Thanks in advance,

Juan Dent, M.Sc.

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Luke Zhang [MSFT] · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

Hello Juan,

Did you plan an Visual Basic 6.0 add-in application or something else? If
you want to build an Add-in for Visual Basic 6.0, you may take a look
"microsoft development Enviroment" (DTE), it provide the rich control a
project, for example, create a project and add project items.

Here are an article about this:

Visual Studio 6.0 Extensibility Fundamentals
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs600/htm
l/vsextens.asp

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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Juan Dent · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 4

Hi,

Actually I am dealing with VBA 6.4 not VB6 - I just assume the approach to
their automation would be very similar...
Do you know about this?
--
Thanks in advance,

Juan Dent, M.Sc.

"Luke Zhang [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hello Juan,
>
> Did you plan an Visual Basic 6.0 add-in application or something else? If
> you want to build an Add-in for Visual Basic 6.0, you may take a look
> "microsoft development Enviroment" (DTE), it provide the rich control a
> project, for example, create a project and add project items.
>
> Here are an article about this:
>
> Visual Studio 6.0 Extensibility Fundamentals
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs600/htm
> l/vsextens.asp
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Luke Zhang
>
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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Luke Zhang [MSFT] · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

Hello Juan,

Not like Word or Excel, Visual Studio 6.0 IDE doesn't provide automation
interface so that we can manage the project like we manage word docments in
word with automation. Also, we cannot add/remove a reference within a
project itself. What we can do is to create a Add-in component and use DTE
to operate a project and its items.

I think this also implement to VBA. Anyway, I think you may also post this
question in microsoft.public.office.developer.vba. Maybe you can find a
better solution there.

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

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