Sometimes it is useful to know if your program is running within Visual Basic’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or as a standalone EXE. This routine returns True if the program is running within VB’s IDE:
Public Function RunningInIDE() As Boolean 'Assume running as EXE for now RunningInIDE = False 'Trap errors On Error GoTo RunningInIDEErr 'Divide by zero (fails within IDE) Debug.Print 1 / 0 'Exit if no error Exit FunctionRunningInIDEErr: 'We get error if Debug.Print was 'evaluated (i.e. running in the VB IDE) RunningInIDE = TrueEnd FunctionRunningInIDE performs a division by zero in a Debug.Print statement. Within the IDE, this causes a divide overflow, which the function traps in an error handler. When the program is run as a standalone EXE, Debug.Print statements are not evaluated and no error occurs.
