Category Archives: Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

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.

This is a basic example of how to download the html of a web page with Visual Basic 6, using no ActiveX controls, and only Windows API calls.

There are a two really easy ways to get the netBIOS name of the local machine. One leverages API calls to Win32, while the other simply queries an environment variable.

So if you don’t know it, the technical preview version of Windows 10 is available. Being the good maintenance guy, you’ll want to know about installing VB6 on Windows 10. This article shows how I got it running on Microsofts latest OS. I won’t run down the list of getting Windows 10 installed. If you’re able to grab… Read More »

Copying a file with VB6 is pretty straightforward. However, giving feedback to the user during the copy process has historically been a challenge.

As a developer, from time to time you are called upon to build or process large chunks of data. During this process, you can use the the local hard drive as a temporary holding area. Admittedly, with todays well-specc’d computers, you shouldn’t need to do this, but back in the day, this was the norm. By request, here… Read More »