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I have the VB4 Programmer's Guide and Reference. I was wondering whether it was accurate enough to use for learning VB6 as well.
I have some knowledge in VB6 and have used it before, but I'd like to take the time and really get into it inside out, will these books do or are they not updated/thorough enough?
What other books would you suggest?
Thanks.
Isaac Sasson,
Small time programmer - complainer at large.
Sonork ID 100.13704
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Make sure it references the 32-bit version of VB4. Also, the major things introduced in VB5 were native code compilation and the AddressOf operator. Outside of that, you'll find many things are (mostly) the same as far as the language goes.
When I was learning VB, I started with the learning edition, which came with some videos that got me going. I bought three books (they're old now)... VB Explorer, VB Secrets, and a MCSD exam prep book. However, the best resource is the Internet!
Good luck.
Jeremy L. Falcon
"The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'"
Homepage: imputek.com
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Thanks for the tips mate!
Isaac Sasson,
Small time programmer - complainer at large.
Sonork ID 100.13704
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Not to seem pushy or anything, but have you considered just learning VB.NET instead of VB6?
Nick Parker
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Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step
from Microsoft Publishing. Trust me, it's really good  . I used it to learn a lot of VB, though you could probably abandon it 3/4 of the way and start learning on your own.
First Programmer: "How many bits are in a bite?"
Second Programmer: "You spelled bytes wrong."
First Programmer: *stares* "It's a joke, moron."
Second Programmer: "Joke...?"
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How can i take control of Distiller writer into VB code ?
Thanks.
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I wrote some VB code awhile back to create PDF via the print driver. The distiller product was to difficult to control.
caveat for the PDF print driver. You need to add a sleep function to your VB code to wait for the PDF file to be created. Check for the finished file then move on to the next file.
Good Luck
Alex McCool
amccool@socal.rr.com
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Hi,
The .Net naming guidelines cannot be fully applied to Visual Basic. You can
almost do it because, despite VB's case insensitivity,
variable/method/property names and type names are in different namespaces
and so do not clash. I don't think this was the case in VB6. For example, in
VB .Net you can do:
Dim customer As Customer
and the compiler understands that customer is different from Customer.
But for properties you run into trouble
Private name
Public Property Name() As String
Get
Return name
End Get
End Property
name and Name clash so you end up having to do
Private m_name
or something.
If the compiler could distinguish between variables and methods then the
.Net conventions could be applied consistently for both VB and C#.
With C#, I've been trying to follow the new guidelines but I'm still using
Hungarian prefixes for controls. Microsoft don't say what to do for controls
but I guess we should use full suffixes, i.e.,
customerText
customerLabel
customerCombo
etc.
Comments anyone?
Kevin
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Where are these naming guidelines?
I use m_iCount or miCount for member variables, iCount for local variables and Count for property names, and I dont have any problems.
--
David Wengier
TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot."
Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconnetframeworkdesignguidelines.asp
Hungarian notation is not recommended in the the new guidelines. However, you cannot apply these guidleines consistently to VB .NET.
Though some are now suggesting that you can use what you like for private fields and locals. So for the Property problem in VB you can use
m_iCount or m_count, etc.
Kevin
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Hi friends,
I'm trying to use oledb provider (MSDAORA) for personal oracle 7.3 and could not succeeded to the full length. giving errors at the time of adding new records
Can any one help me...
Thank you
Sudhakar
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Hi
First and foremost, i need to thank you for spending your valuable time to read this document.
OK, let us not beat the bush. Let us get into some good action.
I have developed a new ActiveX control in VB. Let me take this time to eloborate the
functionality of that Control. If you are a S/w developer definetly you will be bored to do
the things again and again. Even i was also bored to repeat the same things and then finally i
got the idea to develope this control.
Many of us used to develope some small applications which interatcts with the Database and
manipulate the records. In all the cases we have to write the coding again and again to do the
basic functions. Say for example, If you want to save a record in a Database from a Form, then
you will have to write the codings to save and in the same way to retreive a record from the DB
again you will have to write some coding. The codes wont differ but the Form differs. So in all
Forms you will have to write the codes again and again.
To avoid this i have developed an ACTIVEX control which does all the works. You absolutely don't have
to write any code in your Form. You can get all your work done without writting even a single line
of code.
The control is now ready. But the problem is, I dont have anyone who can give either good or bad
comments about this control. I even dont know wether this is a revolutionary idea or an usual thing.
To get me out from all these questions, i really need some help from others. Unfortunately i dont
have much friends to help and so i treat the peoples whoever reads this as my friend. If you have
the tendency to help this friend please mail me to get the control and pass the comments to me.
It may be either good or bad. Any type of comments are welcome.
Please dont treat this document as a headache. If you think so, you have all the rights to
move this to trash. But dont forget Trash Bin is the first place where we will have to look for
some new ideas.
If you are intersted to know about this control and want a copy of this control, please mail to
vijooo@rediffmail.com
"Your work is a self portrait of urself. Autograph ur work with excellence"
Vijooo
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i´m trying to build an ftp server with the winsock control and one of the options should be an ident lookup on connect. It seems that my connect to port 113 to the client on connect is fine, but now i have no clue how to get the response or at least how to react on a response of the client, would the same procedure like "finger" work ?
Any ideas , snippets, help ?
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Hi all,
I am trying to use a vb dll from a VC++ app in which I want to show a form. All goes well except where I create and show the form. This is what I am doing from the class module:
Public Sub Class_Initialize()
Dim myForm As New Form1
Load myForm
myForm.Show
End Sub
With the Show part commented out, CreateDispatch(VBDLLNAME,&oleException) returns Operation returned Successfully or something like that in the exception variable, but when The Show line is uncommented and the program is run exception is thrown 'class not registered'.
I just started with VB yesterday and need to do this to support some legacy VB code. Please Help!
Cheers,
Zeeshan Razzaque.
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Hello I had created an Activex component
I try to create it dynamically with :
Set MyTotoObject = CreateObject("TotoViewOCX.TotoView")
In this cas I can only acces the function of my object I can not access
the extender functions.
So I can not displaying it.
I try another method:
Set MyTotoObject = MMI.Controls.Add("TotoViewOCX.TotoView", "MyToto")
With this mode I can only acces the extender methods, And I can displaying it.
but I need to use the function I have created.
Is it possible to create the object and displaying it with the possibility
to Use the functionnality i add inside
Thanks a lot Michael
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Do you have to use late binding? Can you just add it to the Components list of your project?
--
David Wengier
TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot."
Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
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hi,
I need to work without adding the component to the project.
And i'm not able to display it
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Michael.Weiss wrote:
I need to work without adding the component to the project.
In that case, you should be able to do the following:
Set MyTotoObject = MMI.Controls.Add("TotoViewOCX.TotoView", "MyToto")
MyTotoObject.Object.YourFunction()
Where "YourFunction" is whatever you want to do.
--
David Wengier
TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot."
Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¨
it's working
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Hi,
How can I create this acitevx component to access from jscript?
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Please, how could i make 16-Bit colors 32-bit?
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Are you talking about an image that you want to display, or the display mode of your video monitor?
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day
Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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hi everyone..
does anyone know if there is a way of getting input from DOS shell. I am running an executable (DOS based program) which prints stuff on the screen. is there a way of catching this from a VB program while the executable is running? please do let me know..
thanks
Mohith
be the change that you want to see in the world
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The easiest way I know of is to have the standard output (STDOUT) redirected to a text file. You could use some console functions or the ReadFile() API, but that involves more work on your part. Anway, to be able to have the output in VB use the ShellExecute() API.
Private Const SW_HIDE = 0
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, _
ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Then, call your exe make sure to redirect the output in the parameter parameter.
ShellExecute Me.hwnd, "open", "my.exe", "> output.txt", "C:\", SW_HIDE
The program's output will be in output.txt, which will reside in the same dir as the exe you called.
Good luck,
Jeremy L. Falcon
"The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'"
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how does this work? does it write to output.txt in c:\ directory? its not creating the file. its not in the same directory as exe as well.
i want to read the output on screen into my VB program. can i do that? i am using VB 6.
so i run an executable file from my VB application. that eecutable basically dumps some stuff on to the screen and i want to catch these dumps and show them in my VB application while the executable is running. i dont want to redirect the whole output to a file and then read it in once executable is finished running. can i do this?
please let me know. i would really appreciate your help.
kindest regards
Mohith
be the change that you want to see in the world
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