Re: Automating VB IDE ?

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"DanS" <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Greetings,

The current project I am working on is a field flashing utility for some
small embedded device CPU modules using a 'C' based language.

Each firmware image has a unique serial number within the C code. I plan
to
write a small VB program that will edit one line in the C source file,
shell to this 'C' like compiler and do a command-line compile to a flash
binary image. It will then open the VB .frm and set the S/N number there,
save it, and do a command line VB6 compile into an flash upgrade exe.

The problem I am facing is that currently....the binary flash image is
stored in a resource file along with a few other supporting files
required.
The flash image is the only part of the .res file that changes, due to the
fact that each firmware image contains a unique S/N.

Is there any re-course to somehow automate the editing of the res file ?

Would it be possible to open the RES file in binary mode and replace the
existing flash image with the updated one as long as it is the same size ?

Thanks in advance,

DanS

Look for UpdateResource() in MSDN. It requires Windows NT, but you could
extract the resource in any Windows version.


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