VB6 Editor changing case of variable names

Question

I\'m not much of a Visual Basic person, but I am tasked with maintaining an old VB6 app. Whenever I check out a file, the editor will replace a bunch of the uppercase varia

Answer 1

Continuing from Mercator's excellent answer...

I'd recommend:

1. Check out all files (I assume you're using VSS for a VB6 app)
2. Do a rebuild of the entire project group
3. Recheck back into VSS

Now base you're the real differences rather than the 'auto' changes that VB6 has tried to apply.

Answer 2

Since I always find this thread first looking for a solution to messed-up casing, here is one Simon D proposed in a related question:

If you just need to fix one variable's casing (e.g. you accidentally made a cOrrectCAse variable and now they are all over the place), you can correct this for good by adding

#If False Then
    Dim CorrectCase
#End If

to the beginning of your module. If you save the project and remove the statement later, the casing remains correct.

Using Excel VBA I often accidentally change all Range.Row to Range.row by carelessly dimming a row variable inside some function - with the help of Simon D's solution I can fix this now.

Answer 3

Enums are even worse. Getting the case wrong anywhere the enum is used changes the case of the definition.

Answer 4

DJ is spot on... VB always changes the case of variables to match the original declaration. It's a 'feature'.