Re: Best way to debug VB6 and VB.net interop

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"Robert Jordan" <robertj@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dft07v$c39$00$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Hi Eric,

Thanks for the help. That worked great. If you don't mind I have another weird debugging situation. What is the best way to debug a VB.net dll calling a VB com dll? I have a VB6 app that is calling a VB.net dll that then calls a VB6 dll. I don't care about debugging the VB6 app so I just set that as the start up of teh VB.net dll and I can debug the VB.net dll. I have the VB6 dll running in the Vb IDE but the breakpoiunts don't stop in the VB6 dll. Is this the correct way or is there something else? 

Sorry, I don't know much about VB6. You may try the same trick using
something similar to .NET's Debugger.Break.



This is indeed similar.

You should do a
declare Sub DebugBreak lib "Kernel32"()
Compile the VB6 class with 'include debug symbols'.
In this case, you can't use 'edit & continue' in VB6, the VB6 Ide can't be used to debug, the debugger IDE will jump into to the VB6 DLL and show the VB6 source code.



Rob 

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