Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

This simple program adds menu items or subitems at runtime without any api calls.

Visual Basic 6 (VB6) is a programming language that was widely used in the past, but it is no longer as relevant as it once was. VB6 was released in 1998 and was succeeded by Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) in 2002. While VB6 is still used by some organizations, it is no longer supported by Microsoft, and most… Read More »

Recently, I went to one my favorite source code repositories, just to check out new submissions, and see how things are progressing in the community. I always enjoy seeing how up and coming young programmers are learning new ways to keep our favorite “old, dead” language alive.

The Jaro-Winkler distance (Winkler, 1990) is a measure of similarity between two strings.

Very fast function to encode or decode Quoted-Printable.

The attached code is a demonstration of how to remove duplicates from a string array as quickly as possible.

A module for retrieving the handle number (hWnd) of a window providing only the process id number (PID). This code is seeking handles that match the given PID and returns the hanlde that refers to a visible window. But, since not all the processes running are windowed or some processes may have multiple windows, may not work for… Read More »

This function will retrieve the version number, product name, original program name, etc.

I hope that this is the shortest and easiest wordwrap-function in vb you have ever seen, that you enjoy it and use it in all your projects.