BUG: Visual Modeler 2.0 Reverse Engineering Error

• Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 6.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio, Enterprise Edition 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When reverse engineering a Visual Basic project to Visual Modeler with the Load Behavior as Loaded/Unloaded, the following error occurs:

No Visual Basic Project was selected for reverse engineering.

RESOLUTION

For Reverse Engineering to work correctly, you have to specify the Visual Modeler Load Behavior as Load on Startup in Visual Basic 6.0 Add-In Manager, and then restart Visual Basic.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new project in Visual Basic and open the project you want to reverse engineer.



2. If Visual Modeler is not listed as one of the Add-In items under Add-Ins menu, bring up Add-In Manager from Add-Ins menu.



3. From the Available Add-Ins list, find Visual Modeler Add-In and Visual Modeler Menus Add-In. Place a check next to Loaded/Unloaded as the Load Behavior for both.



4. Choose Reverse Engineering Wizard from the Visual Modeler submenu, found on the Add-Ins menu.



5. A dialog box, titled Reverse Engineering Wizard, is displayed. Click New to have Visual Modeler start with an empty model loaded.
   
   The following error message occurs:

   No Visual Basic project was selected for reverse engineering.

1. From the Available Add-Ins list, find Visual Modeler Add-In and Visual Modeler Menus Add-In. Place a check next to Load on Startup for the Load Behavior.



2. Exit and launch Visual Basic again.

Keywords : kbwizard kbAddIn kbVBp600bug kbGrpVBDB kbVMod200
Version : WINDOWS:6.0; WINNT:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS winnt
Issue type : kbbug