Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

Tray Area

This control lets you add your icon to the System Tray Area and handle some events such as MouseMove, MouseDown, MouseUp and DblClick. The zip file contains the TrayArea.ctl and a simple project that shows the use of the control inside a form. (Works with Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0) Attachments File Uploaded Size 968-20190911-092701-TrayArea.zip 9/11/2019 9:27:01… Read More »

Add Menu To Sysmenu

This Program Describe How You can Add Menu To SysMenu as well as Modified the SysMenu, like Checked Or Unchecked Menu, Delete Menu, Enable Or Disable Menu etc. Remove Windows Control Box and remove Maximize button without affecting Minimize button. Hope You like it. If you developed it further please send me a copy. Please Check It Out… Read More »

Stylish LabeledTextBox with Lookup Button

This is a mix of a label, a textbox & an optional lookup button. Features: auto text highlight, press ENTER to move focus to the next control, shortcut key for lookup button & label positioning (left, top, bottom.) Attachments File Uploaded Size 1031-20190911-091227-LabeledTextBoxrel2.zip 9/11/2019 9:12:27 AM 6883

XML Gui Sample

This file contains a trivial app that loads and creates controls defined in an xml document. Each controls events are routed into a central event on the collection, and passed back to the form. The form creates the physical control when requested, in the site required. Attachments File Uploaded Size 979-20190911-091650-xmlguiversion2.zip 9/11/2019 9:16:50 AM 10865

Animated GIF Image Control

Very similar to VB’s image control, lightweight, windowless, DC-less. Flicker-free, just drop and go. Sample project included, documentation included as comments in the .ctx file. Attachments File Uploaded Size 1029-20190911-090656-aniGIFuc.zip 9/11/2019 9:06:56 AM 237041

Scrolling Label

Scroll text left to right, right to left, top to bottom or bottom to top, set back / fore colors or set a picture. Attachments File Uploaded Size 983-20190911-090839-ScrolLbl.zip 9/11/2019 9:08:39 AM 12083

CD Managing Sample Project

This is a tutorial of how an .mdb (MSAccess2k) file is linked to a VB project by ADO. It includes the code to add/delete records, and it is fully commented. In the .zip file there are two .mdbs: one with some records and one empty, to show how to manage the records absence. To switch them, change the… Read More »

Animated_Analog_Clock

This is the COOLEST Animated Analog Clock created in VB Attachments File Uploaded Size 1028-20190911-090504-Animated_Analog_Clock.zip 9/11/2019 9:05:04 AM 19007

Insert lots of records into a table : Access vs. SQL

Our German office recently upgraded an application from MSAccess to SQL Server, and noted some horrifying performance drops when adding many records to a table (ie. parsing a text file and inserting records). We scratched around and came up with the attached solution. We tried 5 methods of adding data, and finally settled on the converting the data… Read More »