Opening a visual basic project with Excel?

[Swaney]

I have a visual basic project (.vbp file) that I am trying to run. Does anyone know how I can open this file with Visual Basic inside of excel. I do not get the option to open a new project from the File menu.

Thanks

 

[Andrew Poulsom]

Not that I know anything about VB, but wouldn't you have to Shell to the executable (.exe)? The .vbp file is just a text file, isn't it?

 

[Ivan F Moala]

I have a visual basic project (.vbp file) that I am trying to run. Does anyone know how I can open this file with Visual Basic inside of excel. I do not get the option to open a new project from the File menu.

Thanks

You can't open a VBP from within Excel's VBE because Excel VBA doesn't support the standalone VBP (VB) ie Excel has it's own project construct and that is The Actual Workbook.
What you have to do is;
1) run the VB application ... ie call the application from within Excel or
2) Recreate the project

To recreate you will need the bas, frm cls files and other dependencies.
For this open the VBP in an ascii editor (notepad) and have a look