Mixing VB6 and VB.Net resource files

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Jan van Veldhuizen - 03 Aug 2004 21:01 GMT

I've an application (VB6) which uses resource dll's (only strings) with a
LoadResString function.
Now I added some new programs using VB.NET.
I want to avoid duplicating the resource-files, but I cannot find a way to
re-use those dll's from .NET.
Is there a way how I can read the stringtable from that dll? Or how I can
share the rc- or res-file with both the VB6 and the .Net project?

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Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] - 03 Aug 2004 21:32 GMT

Jan,
The easiest way may be to create a VB6 DLL that has an object that your
VB.NET code can call that does the LoadResString for it.

As I don't believe the Visual Basic Compatibility Library's
VB6.LoadResString within VB.NET can be used to load VB6 style res files.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbup
1062.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbgr
fVisualBasicCompatibilityNamespaceReference.asp

Hope this helps
Jay

> I've an application (VB6) which uses resource dll's (only strings) with a
> LoadResString function.
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> Is there a way how I can read the stringtable from that dll? Or how I can
> share the rc- or res-file with both the VB6 and the .Net project?

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John Hart [MSFT] - 04 Aug 2004 20:53 GMT

Hi Jan,

Jay is correct the Visual Basic Compatibility Library's VB6.LoadResString
will only work on VB.Net resx files. Another possible solution for you
would be to call the native Window's APIs LoadLibrary and LoadString from
your .Net project to load the resources from your VB6 DLL.

Here's a KB article that describes how: How To Create and Call a String
Resource in a DLL with a Specific Locale ID
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232625&Product=vb6)

This article was written with a VB6 sample but you can easily upgrade the
code .Net

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> As I don't believe the Visual Basic Compatibility Library's
> VB6.LoadResString within VB.NET can be used to load VB6 style res files.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/
vbup1062.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/
vbgrfVisualBasicCompatibilityNamespaceReference.asp

> Hope this helps
> Jay
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> > Is there a way how I can read the stringtable from that dll? Or how I can
> > share the rc- or res-file with both the VB6 and the .Net project?

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Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] - 06 Aug 2004 14:00 GMT

John,
I like that better then my VB6 DLL!

Although he already has VB6 DLLs, so it may not be such a big difference...

Thanks for the link, I'll need to save that one.

Jay

> Hi Jan,
>
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> Here's a KB article that describes how: How To Create and Call a String
> Resource in a DLL with a Specific Locale ID

(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;232625&Product=vb6)

> This article was written with a VB6 sample but you can easily upgrade the
> code .Net
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> > Message-ID: <O$qXhkZeEHA.2908@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>
> > Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization,microsoft.public.dotnet.languag

> es.vb,microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.upgrade
> > NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-96-139-50.om.om.cox.net 68.96.139.50
> > Path:

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> phx.gbl
> > Xref: cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb:221420
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> > As I don't believe the Visual Basic Compatibility Library's
> > VB6.LoadResString within VB.NET can be used to load VB6 style res files.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/

> vbup1062.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/

> vbgrfVisualBasicCompatibilityNamespaceReference.asp
> >
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> can
> > > share the rc- or res-file with both the VB6 and the .Net project?

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