VB 6 Tutorials & Articles
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Mathematical Functions
by James CrowleyHow to perform mathematical operations, including rounding, square roots, logarithms etc.
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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.
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Len Command
by Dmitry ApukhtinHow to use Len to find the length of a string
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ADO+
by MicrosoftA preview of ADO+, part of the Microsoft .NET innovations
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SendKeys Command
by James CrowleyHow to use the SendKeys command.
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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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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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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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Image List Control
by James CrowleyIf you want to use images in the other standard VB controls, you need to know how to use the ImageList control. Here's how.
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Menus
by James CrowleyEverything you ever wanted to know about menus.
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Timer control
by James CrowleyHow to use the Timer control to regularly trigger code at a specified interval.
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Shell and ShellExecute function
by James CrowleyShows you how to open another application using the Shell function, and use the ShellExecute API to open a file with its default viewer.
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Error Handling
by James CrowleyDon't let VB give the user a meaningless error message, and then close your application! Use error handling, and provide a useful error message (ie Please insert a disk), without crashing your applica
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Toolbar Control
by James CrowleyAdd a fully functional toolbar to your application in minutes after reading this tutorial on the Microsoft Toolbar control.
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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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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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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.