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There are many useful functions for the date-time operations in VB6. Visual Basic gives you enough power for handling the date and time. Here you’ll learn about those functions in brief.

In this lesson, I’ll talk about the file system controls in VB6. To work with the file system, the DriveListBox, DirListBox and FileListBox are used together that will access the files stored in the secondary memory of your computer. The DriveListBox shows all the drives on your computer, the DirListBox displays all the sub-directories of a given directory,… Read More »

This lesson is about the numeric functions in VB6. Before proceeding with this lesson, you may want to read VB6 Tutorial 34: Handy Numeric functions.

This lesson is about some important and common methods in Visual Basic 6. There is a large number of built-in methods in VB6. This section describes the methods that you’ll use most frequently in your program.

This lesson is about the Timer control in VB6. It’s simple and interesting.

Have you ever faced an overflow-error? While working with large data, generally large numbers, overflow error raises. I’m going to explain about the overflow-error to you in this lesson with some tips and tricks for fixing it. Reasons for an Overflow error Assigning large numbers The overflow error occurs when you’re assigning a large number or a numeric… Read More »

This lesson takes you through the Select Case block, a very useful decision-making structure in Visual Basic.

This lesson shows you how to work with the ListBox control in Visual Basic 6.

Visual Basic 6 allows you to use the multiple selection feature of the ListBox control.

In this lesson, I’ll tell you about the ComboBox control in brief.