How to automatically fix MISSING reference in a dll when a referenced library is broken in VB6?

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Published on 2010-03-23T09:12:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 11:23 UTC
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What do you do when you break compatibility on a common library used by many other libraries?

What i usually do is:

For every dll that reference the broken one
 Checkout dll
 Checkout vbp project
 Open vpb project with VB6 Ide
 Click on References button 
 Uncheck MISSING reference and OK
 Click on References button 
 Check references and OK
 Click on Make dll
 Close project

This can be a pita activity, when you have many Dll to recompile and it can be error prone because you could miss some Dll (anyway we have continuous integration that alert this cases).

What's your best practice to handle this scenario?

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