Library tutorials & articles tagged with visual basic
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Creating Applications for Handheld Devices Using eMbedded Visual Basic
by Rob Bickel
A no nonsense tutorial designed to give Visual Basic developers an insight into developing VB applications for handheld devices such as PDAs.
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Visual Basic 6.0 - How to create a Slide Menu
by John D.
Visual Basic 6.0 - How to create a Slide Menu. The first is a bare-bones approach and second example is focused on layout and design.
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Visual Basic 6.0 - Exporting a DataReport to Microsoft Word
by John D.
This article is a simple yet effective way to export a DataReport to MIcrosoft Word using the DataEnvironment and DataReport. This walk-through starts with creating a simple database in Microsoft Access and then creating a User Interface in Visual Basic 6.0.
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Number Systems
by Mitch Dusina
Most programmers are aware of a few number systems. Decimal, Binary, Octal, etc. VB.NET allows you to work with these number systems, but these alone. What about Duodecimal, Quinquevigesimal, or Roman Numerals? A proof of concept article.
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Skinning (BitBlt Introduction)
by Marc Pritchard
Want to make your app look as good as Media Player or Winamp? This tutoral hopes to get you going to a fully skinned killer app!
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Introduction to Class Programming Part II
by Dante Salvador
In this series articles, we are going to discuss about: Enumeration, Properties that return an Object and other semi-advance topic pertain to in creating a class base program
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Introduction to Class Programming
by Dante Salvador
This article series is an introduction for class programming in VB 6. It discusses general information about class such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. The first article will tackle classes in general, setting up properties and method of a class.
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API Programming Series #5
by Sreejath S. Warrier
This article which is the fourth in this series discusses how you can get the Global Memory Status of a system using the Win32 API from VB
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API Programming Series #4
by Sreejath S. Warrier
In the fourth of this series on API Programming, learn how to hide your application from the Ctrl+Alt+Del list on Windows 9x.
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CopyMemory and Arrays: Proper Use
by Jose Pablo Ramirez Vargas
This article will show the reader the advantages and disadvantages of using CopyMemory on arrays to achieve faster speeds when handling a sorted array. It will also show the reader the caveats of the API implementation and how to avoid them.
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POSTing Form Data to a Web Page
by Bruce Johnson
Demonstrates two techniques that can be used to post data to a web page from within Visual Basic.
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API Programming Series #3 - Bring a Window to Top
by Sreejath S. Warrier
The API programming series is a set of articles dealing with a common theme: API programming in Visual Basic. Though there are no hard and fast rules regarding the content of these articles, generally one article can be expected to contain explanation of one or more API calls with generously commented code snippets. Depending on the subject, these code samples may expand to become a full-fledged application. In this article we see how to bring a window to top.
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File Extensions: Finding the default Icon
by Phil Couling
This article demonstrates how you can display the default icon for a given file extension. This is particularly useful for making file sharing and FTP client software etc. I will show you how to take a file name and use it to find and draw its icon in a picture box.
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API Programming Series #2
by Sreejath S. Warrier
The second article in this series deals with the mechanics of declaring and invoking an API function from within VB, ending up with neat little application that displays the computer name.
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Circular Referencing to COM Objects
by Jose Pablo Ramirez Vargas
This 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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API Programming Series #1
by Sreejath S. Warrier
This 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 Fernando
Instead 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 Rose
Learn how to use MS Access 2000 with VB and the DAO library. Includes a module for handling simple databases.
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Get the Message - MSMQ
by Bruce Johnson
Bruce Johnson gives a basic introduction on the use of MSMQ from within Visual Basic.
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A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control
by Mitchell Harper
A 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.