RE: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly

[Subbu B. <Sub...@au...>]

Hi Ian

You may want to consider linking to an excellent article on NAnt at
http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=NAnt - this article
is by far the best I have encountered - specially as far as writing one's
own tasks are concerned. It, in effect, kick-started my NAnt task-building
involvement. 

I also found Guiseppe Greco's doco at
http://developer.agamura.com/technotes/building-projects-with-nant/ a nice
formal, but very useful document - another worthwhile read.

Thanks and regards
Subbu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:ia...@ac...]
Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:10 PM
To: Subbu Balakrishnan
Subject: Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly


Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:

>Thanks for the excellent turnaround! 
>
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no problem. I'd just been looking at that code yesterday so it was a 
very quick fix.

>I am looking at using the vb6 task to do our 250+ component build so expect
>some more feedback in the near future. 
>
keep it coming. It good to know some of these tasks are getting pushed a 
bit so we know we're finding the bugs in them.

>Some of the lads find it amusing that
>I am using new technology (.NET) to build old (VB6). NAnt and NAntContrib
>bring so much out-of-the-box that it seems a shame to re-invent a less
>capable "pretender"!
>
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Best tool for the job and all that. I originally wrote the vb6 task  
because I had the memory of managing a large build of mixed vb6 and vc++ 
6 with a collection of batch files <shudder>. I think also a lot of 
people are retaining old vb components and talking to them via interop 
so it makes sense to be able to have a unified build environment.

Ian

>Regards
>Subbu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian MacLean [mailto:ianm@ActiveState.com]
>Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 4:47 PM
>To: Subbu Balakrishnan
>Cc: 'nan...@li...'
>Subject: Re: [NAntC-Dev] VB6 Task does not "CheckReferences" correctly
>
>
>Thanks Subbu,
>Changes committed. Thats 3 bug reports this week for the vb6 task.
>
>Ian
>
>Subbu Balakrishnan wrote:
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>>I noticed two issues here:
>>[1] ActiveX Control references are not catered for i.e "Object={some guid
>>..." lines in the VB6 project file.
>>[2] "referenceRegEx" returns incorrect values for "majorver", "minorver"
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>and
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>>"lcid"
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>>I have made the following modifications and they fix the problems
mentioned
>>above:
>>
>>--->Replace (line 329)
>>     Regex referenceRegEx = new
>>Regex(@"Reference\s*=\s*\*\\G{(?<tlbguid>[0-9\-A-Fa-f]*($^\.)*)}\#(?<major
v
>>    
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>e
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>>r>[0-9\.0-9($^\.)*]*)\#(?<minorver>[0-9]($^\.)*)\#(?<tlbname>.*)\#");
>>--->With
>>     Regex referenceRegEx = new
>>Regex(@"(Object|Reference)\s*=\s*({|\*\\G{)(?<tlbguid>[0-9\-A-Fa-f]*($^\.)
*
>>    
>>
>)
>  
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>>}\#(?<majorver>[0-9($^\.)*]*)\.(?<minorver>[0-9]($^\.)*)\#(?<lcid>[0-9]($^
\
>>    
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>.
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>>)*)(;|\#)(?<tlbname>.*)");
>>
>>--->Replace (line 355)
>>     else if (key == "Reference") {
>>--->With
>>     else if (key == "Object" || key == "Reference") {
>>
>>--->Add the line
>>     tlbName = tlbName.Trim('\0');
>>--->After the line (386)
>>     QueryPathOfRegTypeLib(ref guid, majorVer, minorVer, lcid, out
>>tlbName);
>>To remove trailing null chars else the File.Exists call that follows
>>    
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>returns
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>>false even the file exists.
>>
>>Regards
>>Subbu Balakrishnan
>>
>>
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