VB 6 Tutorials & Articles
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Circular Referencing to COM Objects
by Jose Pablo Ramirez VargasThis tutorial shows you how to fool Visual Basic in a way it will permit the programmer use circular references, like a Parent property without locking the parent object in memory.
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A TCP/IP socket server object for Visual Basic
by Len HolgateAlthough socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++ it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.
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API Programming Series #1
by Sreejath S. WarrierThis is the first part of a series of articles explaining how to access and use the Win32 API from within VB.
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Getting System Folders Easily via API
by Thushan FernandoInstead of using static paths like 'C:\WinNT\' in your programs and making it not work on Windows 9x OS's, use the power of the Win32 API to retrieve the important system paths! This article explores a few alternative methods of retrieving some of the core System folders in the win32 enviroment.
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DAO 3.6 Library
by Louis RoseLearn how to use MS Access 2000 with VB and the DAO library. Includes a module for handling simple databases.
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XSD Schemas for VB Developers
by Yasser ShohoudAn XSD tutorial targeted at Visual Basic developers. Explains the fundamentals of XSD schemas and shows examples of mapping VB classes to schemas. Also shows you how to validate XML documents using XSD and MSXML 4.0
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Get the Message - MSMQ
by Bruce JohnsonBruce Johnson gives a basic introduction on the use of MSMQ from within Visual Basic.
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Creating a Datagrid Class in classic ASP
by Brian O'ConnellWell we've all heard of the wonderful Datagrid in ASP.Net and it's pretty handy to say the least. Then again some of you like me may still be stuck with poor old ASP for the moment. But it's not all bad. With vbscript classes in ASP you can acomplish many things. So I got the urge to try and create my own version of the datagrid.
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When Session Variables Go Bad
by Bruce JohnsonBruce Johnson takes a look at pros and cons of using Session variables to maintain state on a web site; and the problems you might hit when using them.
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A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control
by Mitchell HarperA while back, Mitchell wrote an article about MoreOver.com and their XML news sources (which are free for developers using them for non-profit purposes). Today, Mitchell takes that idea one step further and creates an ActiveX component that uses the MoreOver.com news feeds in a similar way. The component uses the XMLHTTP library and the MSXML parser to retrieve and process the news. This article also acts as a good introduction to ActiveX controls if you have never created one before.
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Calling a C++ DLL from Visual Basic
by Kevin SaittaKevin Saitta takes you through the steps of creating a C++ dll and then calling it from VB.
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Magnifying The Desktop With Visual Basic
by Mitchell HarperA very handy application that's included with the Windows operating system is the magnifier, which zooms in on a portion of the desktop. In this article Jason shows us how to create a cool zoomable magnifier using Visual Basic 6 and the Windows API.
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Making a picture browser in VB 6
by Nizar Diamond AliNizar Diamond Ali demonstrates how to create your own image viewer in Visual Basic 6
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Keeping VB Components Compatible
by Bruce JohnsonThe ins and outs of setting compatibility on Visual Basic projects
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Leverage the .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET
by G.Gnana Arun GaneshUsing the .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic developers can build robust applications. Arun Ganesh introduces the new features of VB.net for VB programmers.
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COM Interoperability in .NET Part 2
by G.Gnana Arun GaneshThis article elucidates how to build and install-managed code that will be used from COM applications. A classic COM server is activated using the Service Control Manager (SCM).
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Beginning Active Server Pages
by James CrowleyExpand your VB skills to the web - learn how to create Active Server Pages in this extensive tutorial
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Using SQL-DMO To Backup and Verify a Database
by Carvin WilsonThe SQL Distributed Management objects (SQL-DMO) extend the functionality of SQL Server by providing developers a way to execute common tasks using programming and scripting languages. This article shows you how to use SQL-DMO to create an Active Server Page application to backup and verify a SQL Server database.
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Rich Text Box Controls
by ZERO-COOLWith the rich textbox control saving, loading, changing fonts, and much more has become very simple. This tutorial takes you through the basic commands available to you.
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Using Speech Recognition and Text to Speech
by AlexThis tutorial will guide you through step-by-step on how to talk and make the computer talk back to you. The computer can actually understand what you say!