Twice Again, GrahamH, How to get MS example for short file names to work in VB Express?

Question

And GrahamH, if you are not going to accept e-mail messages, please give an answer that works in VB Express!!!
The source is here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175512/en-us
The critical problems are apparently these two lines
3. Place a Common Dialog control on the form.
4. From the Insert menu, select Module to add a single code module to the project.
There is no Common Dialog (or CommonDialog) control available to put on the form. There is no Insert menu, although the Project menu item has Add Module which seems to do the same thing.
GrahamH said
"The common dialog control is not one of the standard controls that are automatically shown. On the top menu go to Project then Components. Scroll down for Microsoft Common Dialog Control, tick the box then tick Apply. The control now appears at the end of the shown controls."
But there is no Components under Project in VB Express 2008.
This is a tiny program that I only want the results. I don't want to buy VB just to get it to work. I wasted 2 hours downloading and installing VBE2008 after I was told it would install in the code. And if it won't work in VBE, only in VB, then once again Microsoft has crippled VBE in a really useless way - what are we supposed to do with it?

Answer 1

He is using VB Express! If you right-click on the toolbox, you will see a menu item that reads "Choose Items". Click on it. A dialog will appear. On that dialog, there will be some page tabs across the top. Click on the COM page tab. You should be able to scroll down and see the Common Dialog control.



If there's a specific dialog box you are looking for, vb express should have individual dialogs for printing, fonts, color, etc. you might want to use one of those.

Answer 2

You need to right click on the toolbox panel, select "Components..." scroll down the list until you find the "Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0 (SP3)" [The version and patch level might be different]. Tick the box and click on "OK". You will now be able to add the Common Dialog control to your form.



(There are LOADS of other controls available here, you might want to "play" with them later)



The Insert menu is the "Project" menu at the top of the window. Click on "Add Module"



Your problem is, is that not only are you using VB Express, is that you are using .NET as well. Things are not nearly as straightforward as they were with VB6. The example you are using is VB6. The example definitely works, took me about 30 seconds to replicate it.

Answer 3

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