This lesson is designed to get you familiar with data types and their usage. Very important stuff for memory management in larger programs.

This lesson will walk you through building your first Visual Basic 6 (VB6) program.

Before getting into the actual programming work, you need to have a knowledge of VB controls. In this lesson, a very short description has been given about the controls.

This lesson will give a quick tour around the Integrated Development Environment, or IDE.

Visual Basic, derived from the Basic language, is an object based and even-driven programming language from Microsoft. This language is relatively easy to learn.

How to load an animated cursor for use in your VB app. Attachments File Uploaded Size 899-20170813-113035-SETCURSR.ZIP 8/13/2017 11:30:35 AM 2314

How to search across directories for a file containing specific text. Uses a recursive technique to search sub-directories (similiar to the Windows Find utility). Also shows how to properly cancel a long routine. The recursive procedure is similiar to the DirView sample but uses slower VB directory changing and searching methods rather than API functions. Attachments File Uploaded… Read More »

How to create a Form that has the Windows Desktop as the background. This program makes it appear as though the Windows Desktop is still running, but it actually copies the image of the Desktop to an Image control that is used as the Form’s background.  Attachments File Uploaded Size 899-20170813-112705-SCRNBACK.ZIP 8/13/2017 11:27:05 AM 2393

How to use any color or font in a StatusBar panel. Attachments File Uploaded Size 899-20170813-112548-SBPANEL.ZIP 8/13/2017 11:25:48 AM 1904

How to create a “chat” style window. This sample duplicates the functionality of a window such as those in mIRC – where text is added to the bottom of a RichTextBox and is scrolled into view IF the scroll bar is at the bottom, but doesn’t move the window when the user has scrolled up.  Attachments File Uploaded… Read More »