VB 6.0 IDE Problems

[Justin Cooke]

Hello, I'm primarily a VC++ 6.0 developer and have had to get used to VB 6.0 over the past few months. I'm hoping you guys can help me with two major annoyances: 1) Is there a way to turn off all auto formatting that the MS IDE performs? I would prefer writing my code in an external editor, such as Source Insight, but any formatting I do there is forced back to VB's "style" by the IDE. (I'm talking about things such as the required single space surrounding operators in expressions or the # sign indicating ".0" for floating point numbers.) 2) Related to #1 above...how can I get VB to update the files in the IDE after I've changed them externally? Currently, I have to close the files that I've changed and reopen them to reflect the changes (or just completely close VB and restart it). When using VC++ and Source Insight, for example, as long as I "save all" in either environment, when I activate the other program, it recognizes the changes and allows me to update the files. Thanks, Justin

[Nicholas Cardi]

I dont think the vb 6.0 ide has the ability to do any of these things. Forever Developing

[Steven Campbell]

If you prefer editing externally, why don't you stay out of the IDE entirely. You can compile your project using the VB6.EXE command line.

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[Dave Kreskowiak]

What you want isn't supported by the VS6 IDE. You can do this in VB.NET, not VB6. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome