Export MBVA into text files

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Carl Stanton — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:39:26 GMT

I can check in binary files (Which I am doing now), but I would like to be able to see the diffs between versions.

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Carl Stanton — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:36:07 GMT

the VBA's that I am exported are used to create custom item groups in Microstation. I assume I could do the same thing with c#?

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Jon Summers — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:32:53 GMT

[quote userid="1167984" url="~/products/programming/microstation_programming/f/microstation-programming---forum/225863/export-mbva-into-text-files/696704"]I want to export to text so I can put the text files into version control[/quote]

VBA is ancient. It isn't really suited to version control. It's VB 5½, invented by Microsoft a long time ago. VBA was first launched with MS Excel 5.0 in 1993. That was before version control became commonplace.

What version control will you use? Can't it check binary files as well as text files?

In the long term it would pay to move to another language more amenable to document management. C# and C++ are both good languages for MicroStation CONNECT development and lend themselves to version control.

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Carl Stanton — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:23:01 GMT

I want to export to text so I can put the text files into version control and be able to see the diffs.

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Rod Wing — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:33:02 GMT

Why are you doing the export?

Can't you just copy the .mvba file and then rename the project?

RE: Export MBVA into text files

Jon Summers — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:32:07 GMT

[quote userid="1167984" url="~/products/programming/microstation_programming/f/microstation-programming---forum/225863/export-mbva-into-text-files"]I am struggling with how to make the .frx file text[/quote]

Search the web — you'll find others having similar problems with Excel and other VBA hosts. It looks like the .frx file is a binary blob, not text.