Summary

Compiles Microsoft Visual Basic 6 programs.

Assembly

NAnt.Contrib.dll

Namespace

NAnt.Contrib.Tasks

Base Types

graph BT Type-->Base0["ExternalProgramBase"] Type["Vb6Task"] class Type type-node

Syntax

[TaskName("vb6")]
public class Vb6Task : ExternalProgramBase

Build the project HelloWorld.vbp in the build directory.

<vb6 project="HelloWorld.vbp" outdir="build" />

Check compiled property "vb6.compiled"

    <echo message="Compiled sucessfully" if="${vb6.compiled}" />
<echo message="Compilation not needed" if="${not vb6.compiled}" />

Uses the VB6.EXE executable included with the Visual Basic 6 environment.

The compiler uses the settings and source files specified in the project or group file.

Type	Description
TaskName

Name	Value	Summary
CheckReferences	bool	Determines whether project references are checked when deciding whether the project needs to be recompiled. The default is `true`.
CompiledProperty	string	The name of a property in which will be set to `true` if compilation was needed and done without errors (default: "vb6.compiled") This can be used for touching the compilation files if vb6 autoincrement is set to true to avoid recompilation without any other changes.
Conditionals	string	Tells Visual Basic which values to use for conditional compilation constants.
ErrorFile	FileInfo	The file to which the Visual Basic compiler should log errors.
OutDir	DirectoryInfo	Output directory for the compilation target.
ProgramArguments	string	Gets the command-line arguments for the external program.
ProgramFileName	string	Gets the filename of the external program to start.
ProjectFile	FileInfo	Visual Basic project or group file.

Name	Value	Summary
ExecuteTask()	void	Compiles the Visual Basic project or project group.
NeedsCompiling()	bool
ParseGroupFile(FileInfo)	StringCollection	Parses a VB group file and extract the file names of the sub-projects in the group.
ProjectNeedsCompiling(string)	bool	Determines if a VB project needs to be recompiled by comparing the timestamp of the project's files and references to the timestamp of the last built version.