VB 6 Tutorials & Articles
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Debugging
by James CrowleyLearn how to use all the tools available to you in VB to help track down those annoying bugs, saving you valuable time.
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Enum Windows & SendMessage API
by Muhammad AbubakarA new tutorial from Muhammad abubakar on these two essential API functions, allowing you to enumerate all the open windows, and reveal hidden control properties.
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File Assocation
by James CrowleyIf your VB program creates or reads files, it is always useful for the user to be able to double click on a file in explorer, and for it to be automatically opened in your application. In fact, they d
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Files and Folders
by James CrowleyKnowing how to use Files and Folders are essential. This tutorial covers almost everything you could want to know... copy, rename and delete files & folders, read, write, append files, read ini files
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Advanced Files & Folders
by James CrowleyThe standard VB file and folder functions are very limited. You can't send a file to the recycle bin, reliably check if a file exists, or list files and folders, or open a file as you would in explore
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Creating HTML Help
by James CrowleyHow to create HTML Help files with help files and images, an index, contents, and a search facility, and add it to your application.
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Multimedia
by James CrowleyEver wanted to display animations, images or play sound files? This tutorial shows you how.
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VB Editions
by James CrowleyThis tutorial describes the different versions and editions of VB available, and what you can do with them.
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Performance Issues
by James CrowleyFind out how to tune your applications to peak performance, decrease program size, save time using the 'magic' $, and reduce memory usage all in this great tutorial.
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Polymorphism in VB
by James CrowleyPolymorphism is one of the elite programming terms found only in the upper echelons of the Visual Basic world. In this tutorial, vbweb.co.uk simplifies the topic and shows how everyone can benefit fro
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Registry
by James CrowleyHow to save your program preferences to the registry.
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Scopes
by James CrowleyThis article quickly describes the different 'scopes' a variable, procedure, or any other object in VB can have.
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Sending Messages
by James CrowleyUsing the SendMessage API, you can reveal hundreds of properties and actions in standard controls that are not normally available to you through VB. This includes undo, cut, copy, paste, line count an
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Splash Screens
by James CrowleyEver wanted to add a 'splash screen' like Word as it loads? This tutorial shows you how.
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Subclassing
by James CrowleyThis tutorial shows you how to 'subclass' in VB, getting events directly from windows rather than through VB, giving you more control, and hundreds of new events, opening up a whole range of possibili
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File Time Date Stamps
by Dmitry ApukhtinLearn about the Time & Date stamps of files in a new tutorial by Chris Velazque.
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Variables
by James CrowleyEverything you ever wanted to know about variables.. Declaring, getting, setting, objects, UDTs, ByRef and ByVal. What more could you want?
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VB Conventions
by MSDN CommunitiesExtracts from a number of MSDN articles on coding and naming conventions in VB.
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What is Visual Basic?
by James CrowleyFind out about VB's roots, what it is exactly, and other VB issues.
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Windows API
by James CrowleyLearn how to use Windows API, and extend VB's potential further than you ever thought possible.