Stop Visual Basic 6 from changing my casing

Question

Very simple question that is apparently impossible to find a decent answer to: How can I make Visual Basic 6 stop changing my ^@#*ing variable casing!?!

I know that

Answer 1

Here is a real world scenario and how we solved it for our 350k LOC VB6 project.

We are using Janus Grid and at some point all the code lines which referenced DefaultValue property of JSColumn turned to defaultValue. This was an opportunity to debug the whole IDE nuisance.

What I found was that a reference to MSXML has just been added and now the IDE picks up ISchemaAttributes' defaultValue property before the Janus Grid typelib.

After some experiments I found out that the IDE collects "registered" identifiers in the following order:

• Referenced Libraries/Projects from Project->References in the order they are listed

• Controls from Project->Components (in unknown order)

• Source Code

So the simple fix we did was to create a dummy class/interface with methods that hold our proper casing. Since we already had a project-wide typelib we referenced from every project before anything other typelib, this was painless to do.

Here is part of the IDL for our IUcsVbIntellisenseFix interface:

[
  odl,
  uuid(<>),
  version(1.0),
  dual,
  nonextensible,
  oleautomation
]
interface IUcsVbIntellisenseFix : IDispatch {
    [id(1)] HRESULT DefaultValue();
    [id(2)] HRESULT Selector();
    [id(3)] HRESULT Standalone();
    ...
}

We added a lot of methods to IUcsVbIntellisenseFix, some of them named after enum items we used to misspell and whatever we wanted to fix. The same can be done with a simple VB class in a common library (ActiveX DLL) that's referenced from every project.

This way our source code at some point converged to proper casing because upon check-out the IDE actually fixed the casing as per IUcsVbIntellisenseFix casing. Now we can't misspell enums, methods or properties even if we try to.