This may actually be a tough question since it's specific to a particular book,
VB COM, by Thomas Lewis, published in 1999 so maybe a bit out of date. If I knew how, I'd try to contact the author directly.
I'm trying to work my way through the VBFarmSimulator project in this book, and believe me I typed everything exactly as instructed. Then I find that when I try to follow the instruction on p. 44 to 'compile the DLL' the only options I have are F5 = Start and Ctrl-F5 = Start with full compile. Either way I get a dialog window for which the book provides no instructions, so I leave it blank and proceed. However, I find that the program doesn't finish. My only choices are Break, End, and Restart. And of course the only way to get it to end is to choose End. However, when I do, and look in OLEView tool for all the interfaces the author claims get built, I find only IFarmYardAnimal, none of the nine others which he says should be present.
Then when I go on and try to build an EXE to access the component, and I get to the part where I must add a reference to
VB COM Farmyard Server on p. 47, I find that no such object can be found in my References list. (I did provide that description for the project, as required, in the 'Project Properties' dialog box shown on p. 40.)
Please help!
Peyton
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