How do you view the full Location path in the References dialog in Visual Basic 6?

Question

i am working on a visual basic 6 project. when i go to the References dialog for the project, the Location path for one of the references is cut off so that i can't see the end of the path. does anyone know of a way to find out what the full path is?

Answer 1

There are two ways. Unfortunately, both require you to select (place checkmark in box) the item(s) of interest in the References dialog, whether you want them or not.

First way is to open the Object Browser window, then select one of the libraries of interest from the top-left selector (which usually defaults to ). When you do that, the details pane at the very bottom of the Object Browser window should show you the full path to the DLL. (As a bonus, it will be selectable for Copy/Paste too!)

Second way is to open the *.vbp (Visual Basic Project) file with Notepad (or other text editor), and look for the Reference= entries. For components used on Forms, you can also open *.frm files, and again look for Reference= entries.