Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

You have already learned about various data types in this tutorial site. Now I’m going to explore the concept of data type conversion also known as type casting.

By request, this is a explanation and sample project for utilizing the built-in Replace function for VB6. Finding and replacing text within a string is relatively speaking one of the more common functions you’ll perform when working with text. Fortunately, VB6 has included some functions for easing the burden of working with text. One of these built-in functions… Read More »

This is a simple module that will allow you to log events from within your program to a text file. This is more of a string handling demo, but could be useful as a starting point for something bigger. If you’re like me, you like to know what is going in your application. This information comes in handy… Read More »

Clipboard object is a simple object in Visual Basic 6 that stores data. You can retrieve the data from the clipboard using appropriate methods of the clipboard object.

In this lesson, I’ll talk about error handling in Visual Basic 6. I will discuss, in brief, how you can handle errors in your Visual Basic program.

Validation is a very useful feature in VB6, which you implement in a variety of situations.

Visual Basic 6 stores its code in the form of module that makes your program more structured. So its very important to learn about it. Before you start Its recommended that you first have the concepts of scope, procedure,functions and multiple forms. The following lessons are helpful. What is a module? Module is a separate code file in… Read More »

One of the objects you can work with in VB6 is the Screen object. This will allow you to find information about the current screen configuration, which will in turn allow you to position your forms and other output in the correct position on the users screen, regardless of the current resolution or dpi settings.

This lesson discusses how to work with MDI forms in Visual Basic 6. A sample program has been given at the end of this lesson to enable the learners to quickly understand the concepts of MDI forms.

You can use splash-screen in your windows app to make the program more attractive. The splash screen is a form template which you should set to appear before the main window, or the actual program appears.