VB6 SQL-queryable Resources, based on ZipContainer-Files

This Demo has a dependency to RC6 (but would work with RC5 as well).

The framework-dependency was included, to be able to conveniently "Select" resource-data via SQL -
(from the ZipFile - InMemory... possible via the SQLite-ZipExtension which maps a Zip-archive to a virtual table).

The Project contains a modMain.bas Startup-module, which ensures:
- an AppDB (currently InMemory, but can be easily changed to a FileDB to persist also other AppData)
- in IDE-mode, the .\Res\-Subfolder is the leading data-source (a Res.zip will be re-created on each App-Startup in the IDE)
- in compiled mode, the App will instead fill the AppDBs "Res"-table directly from Res.zip
.. (so the \Res\-Subfolder does not have to be deployed)

So, whilst your Project is still in development, you simply enhance or update new content behind your \Res\-Subfolder.
The auto-refreshing of the Res.zip in your ProjectFolder (at each test-run in the IDE) eases a few worries,
whether the Zip-content matches with the content in your \Res\-Subfolder or not.


Here the output of the SQL-based resource-readouts on the Test-Form:


And here the zipped Demo-Code:
ZipResourceHandling.zip

Have fun,

Olaf

Attached Files

• ZipResourceHandling.zip (69.0 KB)