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Call a .NET COM+ Interop component with Classic ASP.
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An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.
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by Mr.PoorEnglish
Compute "SnapValues" with minimum of fractional digits, useful in autoscaling Chart-control
by Yuriy Kyyan
An article on creation automated interface for .NET applications.
by tomcat1
Call a .NET COM+ Interop component with Classic ASP.
by ponnurajs
This article discusses how to access a .NET component from a COM client, with an example of how to merge two different word documents into one
by dzzxyz
This application demonstrates how to Create, Train and Test an AI Chatbot.
by Didara F Dosabhai
Define schedules to the program for executing programmer defined jobs
by ThatsAlok
An article touching simple issues like events, methods and properties.
by Romout
The control overwrites the windows event handler to overtake the paint event.
by Magerusan Grigore Cosmin
An ATL filter control
by GauravCreations.com
Create an analogue clock with a game !!
by Philipos Sakellaropoulos
A COM component written in C++ that offers functions for multiple parallel downloads, Internet cache access, URL and path resolving.
by Matt Fomich
Instructions for using the Cards dynamic Link library. FreeCell game included.
by Len Holgate
Although socket based TCP/IP servers using IO Completion Ports are often written in C++, it's sometimes useful to write such a server in Visual Basic.
by Elizalde G. Baguinon
Most programmers prefer hand-coding database queries. This is a class that automates query building, while the code is as readable as the program logic.
by Binoy R
The NotifyIcon Component will display an icon in the status bar notification area, which you can use as notiification purpose to alert users that an action or event has occured.
by christophilus
A (fairly) simple tab control with closeable tabs
by Imran A Momin
A chat application using a TCP protocol. This application is for VB6 User
by Dave Richards
A useful tool for generating Excel graphs using Visual Studios built-in profiler
by Marcello Bonino
Correct input/output of strings to/from a DLL written in VC++, using BSTR type.
by George Mamaladze
This workaround allows you to show HTML elements on top of ActiveX elements (an tag).
by Mr.PoorEnglish
Sensational botanic discovery: the smallest Tree on Earth! About a generic Tree, and looping it with ForEach
by Rahman Mahmoodi
Abstract class versus Interface: Usage and Implementation.
by dixanta
Accessing WebCam in Visual Basic 6
by Mostafa Kaisoun
AciveX for using MSDataGrid with ComboBox and DTPicker
by Frank Boettger
Three ActiveX controls that allow the runtime-browsing of the object model hierarchy of a COM-Object, its implemented interfaces and the browsing and interactive changing of its properties and methods (a somewhat extended combination of VB's property- and debug-windows).
by Ivan0001
Automatically create recent menu items, it's very easy and useful. You just need to define file to save, and menu button (class will automatically create all items).
by Hesham Amin
This article is about creating ActiveX controls in Visual Basic 6 that has two extra mouse Events: MouseLeave, MouseHover
by S.S. Ahmed
This article shows how to create tasks in the SQL Server remotely.
by S.S. Ahmed
Create a component to administer SQL server remotely, create tasks that remove themselves from the scheduler after performing the assigned job.
by Sabarinathan A
Advanced Collection (like ASP.NET name/value collection) for VB6 Application settings
by pimb2
Create an Aero-style wizard in VB.NET
by vridhichowdhry
How to print a Form in VB.NET using the Printform Component. Describes the various ways with examples on how to customize the printed output according to your need.
by Jeff Turner
Installing .NET framework with your application.
by Duncan Edwards Jones
Introduces and discusses the Common Language Runtime framework classes used in printing from a .NET Windows Forms application.
by iranvig
An ActiveX Control - you can create a Skinable Form in Desgin Time.
by Philipos Sakellaropoulos
ASP pages and free COM objects for generation of thumbnails and thumbnail views.
by Neville Dastur
A COM component that implements interprocess communication, and illustrates firing events to a COM container such as Visual Basic
by Jozef Bozek
An ATL toolbox control.
by bakerjuk
This article describes the steps taken in the file synchroniser
by smartnose
An article on ATL 7.0 and dynamic system simulation.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Using Multimedia MCI Control to make animation in VB6
by Nelson Kosta Souto
Application configuration settings .NET & VB 6 with XML
by Artem A. Razin
In March 2011, Virtualization Technologies released a new version of the developer library that makes it possible to use virtualization in applications.
by dzzxyz
This application demonstrates how to write a VB client for an AI chat bot.
by James Sullivan
In this article, I would like to share my experience and knowledge about ASP.NET Caching and how it can improve your website performance.
by Ron Schuler
ASP.NET PDF document viewer control that does not require any Acrobat product to be installed
by Kamran A
A customizable cloud generator written in VB.NET.
by Kishore S
Basics of asynchronous procedure and how-to with VB6 & .NET
by Amit Dey
An ATL Component that uses ADO for data.
by Hemant Kurdia
Shows dynamic creation of one ATL full control in a composite control and also to show images directly from database without file system intervention.
by Mario Zucca
A grid control for displaying tabular data, based on Chris Maunder's grid control
by Philipos Sakellaropoulos
A tool that automatically generates HTMLHelp documentation of COM type libraries. You can then add explanations and example source code for your methods.
by intensely_radioactive
Automation of COM Dialogs in a DLL
by David Vanson
Generate you own barcodes for your business, Promotional items or to share links with friends.
by Jeremiah Talkar
A note for C++ programmers about global varaibles in Apartment threaded VB COM objects
by Chirag Maisuriya
An article on Binding Enum to DropdownListbox with the SortedList that sorts entries by value instead of by key.
by Mohit Soam
A Game engine tutorial describes how to play the game and how to customize the game. The game is user friendly that lets you to change the view, difficulty, etc. without changing the VB code.
by Jeroen De Dauw
Dialog that enables user to submit various types of bugs via a webservice
by Miles Gibson
Iron Speed Designer builds database, forms, and reporting applications for .NET – without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security. Accelerate development and eliminate infrastructure programming.
by Waleed Zedan
Custom editors in building user controls
by Steve Krile
Expand the usefulness of the AutoComplete Ajax extender
by Abbas_Riazi
Building COM components that can be called from any IDEs that support COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox
by Abbas_Riazi
Building COM components that can be called from any IDE that supports COM with MATLAB COMBuilder toolbox.
by Chua Wen Ching
Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 1 of 3
by Chua Wen Ching
Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 2 of 3
by Chua Wen Ching
Building Security Awareness in .NET Assemblies : Part 3 of 3
by Rui Miguel Barbosa
Create a code39 barcode using a webservice in C#
by User-Rock
Accessing a C# .NET DLL in VB6 using Com+ or Com Interop
by WillianBR
Control for entrance of numeric data with the mouse.
by atenney
Short description of use of __stdcall and __cdecl in VB and C++.
by dzzxyz
This intermediate tutorial describes how to play campaign button memory and how to customize the game. The game is data driven so you can change the images, difficulty, etc. without changing the VB code.
by dzzxyz
This version of campaign button memory uses timers to limit the game time and to limit how long users see their selected images when the images don’t match. This version also randomly places the political buttons on the form so that the game can be played infinite times.
by parinit
This article describes how to Capture active window of your application
by Rajesh Naik Ponda Goa
The code shows an easy way to capture desktop to file.
by pampatipraveen
This article explains how to change the specified Drive Icon using VB 6. This is only tested with Windows 2000.
by Hosam Ershedat
Teaches you how to accept files and folders and change their attributes
by Parag Paithankar
How to check Yahoo! mail account via HTTP
by Midi_Mick
Using ATL and STL to create collections of COM objects without circular references
by venom00
In this article, we'll talk about VB6-.NET interoperation without involving COM. How? Making C-like exports of some functions from a VB.NET DLL. First, I'll introduce the technique used with a very simple sample and then it will be explained how to set a global hook just using VB (6 and .NET).
by AmitChampaneri
An article for using Copy/Paste of images on Web forms
by Jason Troitsky
A class to encapsulate extended MAPI functions.
by Vinayaka Krishna Shenoy
This utility will help to generate the DataAccess Objects based on the Connection strring provided at the config file
by frans
This program was written to make implementing a collection in ATL a snap
by sbaladevan
This simple program, which I develop for my understanding. This may help you for understanding the com coding and using it VB
by Prashant M. Tailor
Using COM components in .NET framework.
by Len Holgate
This example COM component provides 3 COM objects for using the Win32 Mailslot IPC mechanism. The component may be useful if you need to communicate from VB using Mailslots.
by Paul Welter
Serializes and deserializes COM objects into and from XML documents
by Bogdan Apostol
Enables applications written in Visual Basic 6 to use function pointers and shows how to embed native code
by Rene Bustos
I will show you how to get a response from a Web Service developed over .NET (version does not matter)
by rasheed1979
Shutdown your PC from anywhere in this universe using mobile phone, with lesser cost.
by P.K.Agarwal
Convert a given currency in words with Indian style digital grouping
by Imran A Momin
Its a small piece of code, that converts the image file into array of byte which can be stored into database at type image
by arinhere
Convert your swf movie file to image
by QUIETTA
EZ methods to copy a complete folder, while filtering the filetypes as needed.
by Jans Mary Suncy
Copying files from source locaion to target location based on the file creation date
by ingvar8
Counter based c8051
by S.S. Ahmed
This article will show you how to test your web page for active links. You will learn how to use the Internet Transfer Control. This is a real world example of Inet usage.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
ActiveX to display invoice in grid and edit it, print invoices as Data Report using VB6
by S.S. Ahmed
This application shows how to create flexible and robust reports using VB's data report utility.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Create a new Table and re-create Table to set existent Field as Primary Key
by Philipos Sakellaropoulos
An article on writing thumbnail shell extensions for your MFC document types
by S.S. Ahmed
The article shows how to create VB Add-Ins, it also explains Extensibility Object Model (EOM).
by CS Rocks
This article demonstrates how to manually create a COM DLL with VS 2005.
by Davide Pizzolato
Basic steps to transform an MFC button in an ActiveX control
by S.S. Ahmed
This article shows you how to use Winsock in a client server environment, we will create two separate applications, one of which will be a server and the other will be a client.
by irfan patel
If you are a beginner(or intermediate) and want to develop an MDI application in C# then this one is for you!!
by Sushant Joshi
This article describes how to generate Excel at client side and embedd "Pivot Tables" and "Charts" into the Excel.
by S.S. Ahmed
This sample application shows you how you can use the TAPI 3.0 functions to create a TAPI application of your own.
by Dan Madden
Keep sensitive data safe via encryption
by Jon Law
A Currency Input Box in VB.NET
by Ilan Shapira
Add-In that enables customized auto complete to code/comment blocks in Developer Studio IDE
by Nick Parker
Using reflection and a custom attribute to bind data to UI elements.
by SamratGhose
Provides Custom Sorting for a ADO.NET bound WPF ListView
by byapparov
An article on how to use text template with replacement variables in VBA
by Ivan0001
The best free grid control, you can choose any format (font name, bold, italic...) for each field and much more
by M Saqib Ali
It is an object of database where we connect the data SQL Server and do working in sqlserver.
by Ajey Dudhe
This utility can be used to compare two MS Access databases for changes in the data. You have the option of generating the SQL scripts and\or a summary XML
by Christian S Andersen
An activeX control that mimics the behaviour of Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP Appointment list view
by VBboy136
Do you want to use zLIB Inflate function in VB? - This sample decodes a PDF (stream...endstream) to plain text. Extract plain text from PDF file
by Kazi Zakir Hossain
How to detect the media insertion / ejection in ROM in VB6
by Kazi Zakir Hossain
How to detect system wide mouse events in your application
by Ben Kotvis
This article explains about developing abstract functions for accessing Stored Procedures.
by gabrielmaldi
A very simple way of doing it.
by Adrian Bacaianu
This article will demonstrate how to build and use a COM Add-In using Visual Basic. An useful sample is also provided.
by Adrian Bacaianu
This article shows how to create one ATL COM component using the WinInet functions, how to use it in ASP programs and how to test it from the Visual Basic client. It also shows how to use multithreading support in this component.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
How to use ADO to display Tables, Fields and Records in TreeView and ListView
by Dmitri Sviridov
The article decribes how to implement docking ActiveX control using MFC and ATL
by BlueBit.uy
How to fix dotNetMSN library to easily connect to MSN service
by S.S. Ahmed
An article that shows the usage of Internet Transfer Control
by parinit
This article describes how to move a window having no frame without using any API call.
by Chris Boss
The basic concepts of drawing in Windows.
by Andrey Chuvahin
Example dynamic configuration of DTS-packages for transferring DBF files to SQL Server with VB
by Trevor Tubbs
Dynamic User Settings
by Sushant Joshi
To adjust the size of the drop-down list dynamically at the client-side and adding back-ground and fore-ground color to the drop-down list.
by Sushant Joshi
In ASP.Net we frequently create dynamic controls (rows) using ASP.Net Web Control table. The major reason behind it is the ease of creation. Most of the times the developers prefer the “System.Web.UI.WebControls.Table” over datagrid because it is analogous to the HTML table. In our project we opted
by Gagan.20
This is an easiest program that allows you to send e-mails by only defining SMTP Server name.
by Michael Gopshtein
Describes a tool for easy detection of memory leaks.
by John M Bundy
Allow users to customize your forms
by Alex Saveliev
An article on using ActiveX control to display JPEG 2000 images in your VisualBasic applications
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Using new ActiveX to edit Microsoft Flex grid with Combo box in VB 6
by pbrooks
Demonstrates how to easily simulate an editable combobox that can persist previous entries (Like Internet Explorer).
by FirozOzman
String generator for wild characters.
by jelizondo21
Complete demo of embedding images in an email message.
by Eduardo Campano
This article explains how to open a VB6 MDI child form inside a .NET MDI form
by stebo0728
This guide shows how to extend a standard TextBox to have an "empty value" template
by Dan Elebash
Modified version of Frank Fang's code ported to VB and made CCW.
by LeeBear
This is an inline enumeration of files instead of building an array first.
by Raja.Lakshman
Enterprise Library wrapper class to implement run-time dynamic connection strings without using config file
by Wahab Hussain
This will help you manipulate an Excel file through your code. You can update the Excel file as well.
by Senthil S
Export data from VB.NET Dataset to Excel without using Datagrid/DataTable
by Len Holgate
ADO seems to be the ideal way to expose tabular data from your own COM objects and the ATL OLE DB Provider templates can help!
by Len Holgate
The ATL OLE DB Provider templates appear to rely on the fact that your data is kept in a simple array, but that's not really the case at all!
by Len Holgate
Adding bookmark functionality is relatively easy and it enables our ADO recordset to be used with a greater number of data bound controls.
by Razi Syed
Rich Text Box control with built in options
by Ivan Tsygulev
extending existing property browser with OLE DB common dialogs
by db7uk
A brief overview of Extension Methods.
by jerschio
Tool for extracting comments from a Visual SourceSafe database.
by Ashley Staggs
This article will explain how to fade a form in and out, using VB.NET.
by DCUtility
Screen Snaper is an fast screen, window, region and print screen capture
by Sabarinathan A
Graphical Interface for FFMPEG all in one Video & Audio Converter
by arinhere
This piece of code will show you to convert any video file format to high quality flv and stream it on web server
by Franky Braem
An ATL control for monitoring your directories and/or files for updates, creation and deletion
by Josip Medved (unused)
I sometime need to show things in tree manner. This is not big problem unless you try to fill it from database. Since in .NET there is no key and child adding like in VB6 things have to be done recursively.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Create Mathematical Trick by displaying seven numerical tables using MSFlexGrid
by Roberto Cervantes Rivero
If you need to find a word in all tables and views in a SQL Server database, this is the easy solution.
by Chatura Dilan
An artcal about richtextbox control
by Ted John
A structure that stores up to 32 booleans in a 32-bit integer.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
ActiveX control makes FlexGrid as DataGrid and edits FlexGrid
by James Mouchett
To format a string into currency without the dependency of VB6
by Alberto M.
Eliminar archivos de forma segura con distintos metodos
by Prashant Ladha
Want to get rid of your duplicate emails in MS Outlook ? Already restricited trial version of plugins who do that ? This is the basic free solution.
by chanderp, Yash Bharadwaj
In some application we need to fullscreen the App .Here is simple class that can fullscreen any App. Just create a variable of this class type and call the function using the class variable.
by Yiannis Spyridakis
This articles describes the implementation of functors (of sorts) for VBA using C++ ATL.
by DCUtility
Slider control class to perform gamma correction.
by Ryan Johnston
An article on using GDI+ in an ActiveX control
by dzzxyz
Generic P2P architecture, tutorial and example that covers basic P2P strategy. Upon completing this tutorial, you will be proficient in basic P2P design and coding.
by system-zone.co.uk
A Generic Record Selector Windows Form with Data Filter
by Jesse Fatherree
This simple function will programatically enumerate all properties and values in any WMI class.
by dnair926
Gey any control's value in the type specified.
by aarrabi76
Getting emails from address book using outlook object, and other folders
by Member 4159567
Get the Values From DataBase and Stored into excell Sheet
by Parag Paithankar
An article on getting user logon times for a specific domain or computer
by Scott Bright
How to access the file DropEffect in VB.NET in order to tell cut from paste for a file DropList.
by Ryan Rader
Getting Zip+4 from USPS.com
by jabit
Generates a bunch of gibberish from real text.
by iranvig
New Object "Group Check Box"
by iranvig
you can use this control to your program - see sample .
by Jomar Pabuaya
An explanation of the useful code within Hotel Reservation System
by imran afzal
How to add Click Event on TextBox
by Kambaa
How to check whether .NET is installed in PC Visual Basic 6 code
by Software_Developer
An article about how to create a Joke Jukebox in Visual Basic 6.0
by Gaston
A simple example of using the DirectoryServices namespace in .NET
by Software_Developer
How to create an automatic Wallpaper Changer with Visual Basic 6.0
by Stefan Savev
Show how to use pointers in a C like manner
by CS Rocks
This article demonstrates how to download a file from a (HTTPS) WebDAV server in VB.NET
by fstrahberger
How to execute a Perl script from VBA.
by dawmail333
An example of how to implement and validate non-personal CD-Keys (ideal for distribution on the back of CD cases)
by Binoy R
This small program demonstrates how to get the Windows directory path name, Computer Name, and System information details
by vbCoder21
List and Uninstall ALL Programs installed in the Client's Computer.
by Gayan Buddhika
How to Load Windows Form From Data Base
by chanderp, Yash Bharadwaj
you want to display some text in your application and side-by-side you want to prevent the user from copying the content. . One way to implement this use label, but label do not support the formatting of the text and RTF formats.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Using Data Report and VB6 code to design and print Invoice
by Mohd Arshad Malik
This article will guide you how to create/retrieve/delete key entries in Windows Registry.
by Md. Marufuzzaman
This article is about how to create / place an appointment using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 API
by chihuase
It's easy to create a wrapper for .NET classes that you can use in VB6, but there are some difficulties with the types, specially Generic lists
by chrissie1
An article on how to use the new AAA (Arrange, Act and Assert) syntax using VB.Net. And the difference between the new and the old syntax.
by Shrishail Rana
Exporting functions for VB from a VC++ DLL using ATL
by zapsolution
DWM composition
by Purinda Gunasekara
Input Output Port Accessing and Surveillance System using VB.NET and Introduction to Parallel Ports
by Lai Taiyu
A simple image binarization
by Senthil Sambandam
Simple Image Cropping with Image Resizing Using VB.NET
by arinhere
Perform ImageMagick operations in ASP.NET using command line
by Mukund Pujari
This article shows how to import CSV data and store it in database.
by Ilan Shapira
Customizable method documentation generator
by Duncan Edwards Jones
Describes the layout of a Windows executable file and how to read this.
by gricardi
As users are migrating from traditional desktops to mobile devices, transitioning your Windows application to the web is the next step to increasing your exposure. Thinfinity VirtualUI delivers your Windows applications to users on any device, anywhere.
by Duncan Edwards Jones
This article shows how you can register custom windows messages and create windows solely for dealing with these messages, and use these to communicate between your applications.
by Beet_VB
This is a basic internet TV software and all the main softwares available on internet use same technique
by James Ashley
Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 is a new bridging tool allowing developers to use .NET Forms and .NET UserControls in VB6. This tutorial demonstrates how to add webservices, multithreading, and XAML to VB6 projects. It also provides custom C# Interop UserControl templates for use with the Toolkit.
by Christian Ballerstaller
A class library for an easy submission of IP Address, Port Number and Subnet Mask
by Avinash Lakshman
This article I provides an implementation of the ISoapTypeMapper interface in C++ for serializing custom objects into XML and sending them over the wire using SOAP.
by Jeeva S
This is Simple Java System Tray Application.. This Works only in Windows Environment. No Need For JNI.
by vadimas
Troubles putting JavaScript code inline with VB.NET or C# code
by trecool999
Advanced/Not-So Advanced string and password hash.
by ptnewmedia
Make its application international!
by Sharan Basappa
This article shows how to make the listcontrol to act as a grid control.
by Torsten Mauz
An activeX DLL which lists any active SQL servers on your local network
by Fernando Finelli
How to list or manage users from a domain
by WillianBR
Loading Bitmap pictures from external DLL on VB 6.0 - (run-time).
by Antonio Feijao
Restricting Windows access by hiding desktop windows and disabling special keys.
by CodeMaster9
This will help you make you're own advanced tic tac toe game
by Len Holgate
The ATL OLE DB Provider templates only seem to support read-only rowsets and making them support updating of data isn't as easy as you'd expect!
by Len Holgate
The ATL OLE DB Provider templates only seem to support read-only rowsets and making them support updating of data isn't as easy as you'd expect!
by Duncan Edwards Jones
A system wide hotkey control written in VB6
by ICE_WIZARD
A solution for writing game 3D using VC combined with VB.
by konma
With this application, you can chat with computers and different protocols.
by dzzxyz
Some would call it a “natural language search engine”. Another term for it is an “automatic search engine” as you do not have to manually parse your ideas for the Internet, rather you converse with the Internet in natural language and it brings you materials as appropriate to facilitate your needs.
by parinit
A simple class that creates an icon in the status area.
by Joe Blauth
In this tutorial, we will take a closer look at a technology that allows you to store objects externally with ease, retrieve them effortlessly, and work with them as if you were dealing with some kind of simple database.
by Alessandro Del Sole
An introduction to some new cool features of the Visual Basic 9.0 language syntax.
by mjaleel123456
The puropse of this article to implement an Observer pattern for Windows controls, with the change in data of one MDI child, How to get the other registered forms to intimate the changes.
by Fernando Finelli
OCX User Control for Visual Basic
by Russell Morris
How to take a snapshot of an OCX without using HWNDs.
by ThatsAlok
Opensource Outlook Express automation library
by FranciskaR
A new approach to fluid simulation
by Paul Aurelian Gagniuc
This article shows how to mix two signals into a third, in variable proportions.
by Laughing.John
How to easily override key processing in a form or user control
by Eric P Schneider
A listbox which supports custom drawing properties for each list item.
by RichElswick
Copies a sheet to a new Workbook and saves the file.
by User 4838655
This article shows how to pass an array from a VC++ DLL to VB
by hinter234
A utility to manage your passwords and membership info in encrypted form
by petersgyoung
Web user control that simulates a PDA browser
by Lymington
LAN/WAN wide task/process message server and user message function DLL
by Jon Taylor
This article describes a helper class that assists with placing an icon in the shell (aka "system tray"), and changing the tip text. You can get this functionality by simply deriving your ATL object from the helper class.
by Rajneesh Noonia
PngSkin – ActiveX Control used to apply eye catching skins to Windows Forms with minimal code
by alfi uziel
Different ways to populate a listbox in Access.
by Rod DeValcourt
Prints Formatted Text To A Printer. When you have a need for a report from a text field in a database thats small, say 2000 characters...how do you print it?
by Michael Meelis
An ActiveX control for creating random numbers in VB/VBScript/ASP pages
by Vitaly Tomilov
A simplified and unified way for accessing most frequently used information about Process, System, and Environment.
by Ranjeet Chakraborty
An introduction to the COM+ administration objects used to provide a way to access and manipulate all of the COM+ configuration data.
by Tim Greenfield
How to show progress notification for long operations
by Alex Hazanov
Property list similar to VB.NET, implemented as ActiveX control.
by Yasser M. Jaffal
This article guides you to simply, yet effectively, prevent your software customers from copying your product without your authorization. I admit it is not a top-security solution, and it will be easy to crack without protecting your compiled code, but it is just for conveying the idea.
by Mohit Soam
This is a complete Puzzle implementation.
by kirkaiya
A very simple, XAML-based month-view calendar that shows appointments, exposes events, and allows dragging appointments in the current month.
by Prefict
If you hate naming controls in the footer row of your gridview to do an insert, this article is for you.
by Warrick Procter
QuickSort revisited, with optimisations to minimise machine cycles, stabilised to retain original order, and generalised for convenience.
by Joss
Create a program that can programatically change the background image, and convert images to BMP.
by Vivek.Net
Read and Write Excel Files using VB.NET
by Pradeep KV
This article is mainly focused on reading text files efficiently. It includes log, csv, tab delimited, fixed length files, etc. Instead of using StreamReader(.NET)/FileSystemObject (VB 6.0), we consider the file as a database table and read the data by querying it.
by QUIETTA
Demonstration uses WinInet methods to read cached URL files
by Sabarinathan A
Handle all the exceptions easily
by Franky Braem
An ATL-control for redirecting stdout/stdin
by MijaeDjinn
A textbox with regex masking and validation.
by CS Rocks
This article demonstrates how to register a COM DLL with Visual Studio 2005.
by Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Remotely controlling a PC to turn it on and off from software control on another PC.
by konikula
Inherited ListView which enables user to order multiple items by mouse, and automatically scrolls if necessary
by Bhaskar Shetty
Repair the DBF file which corrupted by any cause.
by gmaran23
Query the properties, or download a file present on a Unix server to a Windows server via SFTP connection
by Rajneesh Noonia
This tool is used to retrieve the forgotten SQL Server Password and passwords of registered servers.
by Omar Al Zabir
RSS Feed aggregator and blogging Smart Client which uses Enterprise Library, Updater Application Block, lots of XML hacks and desktop tricks. A comprehensive guide to real life hurdles of Smart Client development.
by Seifedine kadry
Run an SqlServerr Job from MS Access
by Austin Rappa
Getting AppLocale to run in a batch script
by TRiVo
How to inspect COM object contents at runtime.
by Paul Selormey
Learn how to write user manuals with the Sandcastle Help Compiler.
by Franky Braem
An ATL based control for reading and writing zip files.
by Abbas_Riazi
A utility for bulk scanning, converting the scanned pages to PDF and burning them on CD/DVD for archiving.
by Simon Gregory
Describes an approach for delivery of Soap Messages serialised using ASP.NET Web Client Services over MSMQ and MQ
by Mark Kruger
API which shows a Selection Overlay and notifies the caller when it's resizing and notifies the final rectangle.
by chandrasing.mahale
Send email using DOS command line, the application will read itself txt file and add into email body. Added the size limit of attachments.
by Rajan2may
Sending Mails from C# using System.Web.Mail using default SMTP
by Nick Alexeev
Generic configuration dialog for a serial port
by Lymington
Offers services by servers, use of services by clients, via IP sockets.
by Konstantin Boukreev
Describes an ActiveX Control to use OLE Automation to set an object's properties.
by Chris Kolkman
Generate an Options dialog box from the settings you create in the My.Settings namespace.
by WillianBR
How to share folders in a network with VB 6.0
by Christoph Buenger
This article explains how to show dialogs in Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center UI from an external application.
by Gevorg
This small utility generates code to call store procedure or C# class from Table
by The ANZAC
Takes numbers up to hundreds of trillions and converts them into text
by Sumesh Ram
Sometimes we may desire to hide our file contents from others. One of the possible ways is by encrypting these files. Here, a simple encryption technique is used (in VB - the same technique can be implemented in "C" also.)
by MADHANMOHAN
Using an ActiveX control in COM Server. Accessing the Server using a VB Client.
by zeltera
Small application that checks a list of websites for specified text
by vbfengshui
A simplified wrapper to the .NET Configuration namespace.
by skullz_softwares
Making Single Instance Application a Simple Way!!
by nma202000
my first program.
by Ashutosh Arya
This series of articles demonstrates how to use some of the cool features of ATL in a time and energy saving manner.
by Gopi Subramanian
Small Web Agents using VB - Part II
by Alex Turc
Build a grid using ATL, STL and Win32 API.
by Migs
VB engine for the Sonork Instant Messenger
by Sailung Limbu
This article demonstrate flexible client-side table sorting
by Rai Shahid
This control will allow user to backup SqlServer
by Hans Dietrich
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.
by Hans Dietrich
This series of articles is a step-by-step guide to constructing C++ DLLs that include C++ functions and C++ classes, and then calling the DLL functions and classes from VC++ and VB programs.
by Diwahar A K
The souurce code solves the soduku(Medum Level)
by MalakieUSN
Code storage tool for any language but developed using Visual Basic .NET 2005. Includes syntax coloring for VB code and can load via the tools menu external option in Visual Studio 2005.
by Manassypov
An article on thread synchronization and usage of ThreadPool
by Damian Suess
Xeno Innovations' - Virtual Desktop Manager allows you to run 4 different desktops without filling up the taskbar and minimized GDI usage. (virtual window manager vdm vwm)
by o m n i
Learn how to control your non-client-area, while keeping all the stuff Vista puts on it.
by Nasenbaaer
Combine graphic objects to create own scenes
by Jerry Edens & Doug Eveland
A framework for performing unit tests.
by machocr
Custom control that inherits from TextBox class and adds input validation functions, required validation functions and MaskEdit.
by AlexanderRegueiro
This is a tutorial which shows you how to create a simple program that will speak anything!
by knightofbaghdad
Write Arabic in programs that don't support the Arabic language, using Unicode.
by jcoehoorn
Use this validator control to require that at least one control in a list has a value.
by Bnaya Eshet
Unit Test Framework that support security context and multi threading stress
by Six Hat Solutions
Easily Send Emails From Your Microsoft Applications Using VBA and the SendGrid API
by Ted Osberg
An extensible, hybrid Listview/TreeListView control
by parinit
A complete Tic Tac Toe describes full implementation of Artificial Intelligence
by Kazi Zakir Hossain
A VB6 project describing how to implelement timer functionality without a timer control
by Lymington
Control of timers, timings, offered services, and used services.
by Lymington
Produce timed event flags, functions, threads & timings therof.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
View one row numeric data of MSFlexGrid as Graph Chart
by Mindrinos Matthew
It’s the ONLY ONE Web Proxy Server completely written in VB
by Lim Bio Liong
Learn the fundamental principles of the COM Single-Threaded Apartment Model by code examples.
by Lim Bio Liong
Learn the fundamental principles of the COM Single-Threaded Apartment Model by code examples.
by stavinski
Introduction to unit testing against a database and how the supplied library can help.
by Alessandro Vergani
An article on patching files.
by Thulasee Shan
A piece of reusable code that implements the functionality to update a UI element from a thread.
by CS Rocks
This article discusses various things to consider when upgrading a VB6 app to VB.NET.
by ingvar8
USB IR with c8051
by Yuancai (Charlie) Ye
A set of socket libraries for writing distributed computing applications over the internet
by Scott Bailey
This is a VB.NET project template, using the XNA framework.
by nareshkumarmasetti
windows Textbox UserControl for only numeric, only alphbates, alphanumeric
by Ed.Poore
An article on using .NET controls in VB6
by Ismael M.
A generic DLL that call any .NET DLL in VB6.
by Hesham Amin
Using DataGrid and Data Controls to Access an Access Database
by WillianBR
Add icons in the menus of your applications developed in VB 6.0
by spiderfreak3000
Shows the main features of Microsoft Agent Control 2.0
by S.SRIVATHSAN
Implementation Nhibernate concept in VB.NET
by Vinod Kumar M
This article shows the power of using SQL-DMO with SQL Server 2000 to script out objects. In this example we would script out tables.
by Nelson Kosta Souto
How to use the .NET Library and XML in VB6.
by Mostafa Kaisoun
Display, Add, Edit, Delete records using TreeView and TextBox control
by ioannhs_s
A Step by Step tutorial on SAFEARRAYs and UDTs in COM
by maz2331
Generate and check license keys embedding 16-bit configuration information
by uvw
Sample code for using WIALib in VB6
by SteveHarrisBeast
How to make a password verification form in VB that uses LINQ and SQL
by namrata khandeparkar
this article allows you to send SMS to any mobile using GSM modem or your mobile connected via USB able to Computer
by Jeroen De Dauw
A multithreaded file downloader with progress details, speed info and more
by SimonCampbell
A Treeview/Listview hybrid, inheriting from Control, all custom drawn...
by angus_grant
Article outlining methods for communicating between VB6, VB.NET, and C# apps using Window Messaging.
by EiadXP
This is a very fast way to access string (or other) data with minimum memory consumption.
by NewPast
Converting codes Focus on upgrading VB6 to VB.Net and converting C# VB.Net, and listing many other helpful converter including php, java & others.
by Vijayaraghavan A Iyengar
An article on Interop Forms TookKit 2.0
by QUIETTA
Achieve Perl HASH functionality in the VB6 IDE and at Runtime
by Santosh Visal
Save Visual Basic 6 Form's image as seen on screen to a file
by Sam Gerené
Factor 2 improved performance on VB-JSON Parser
by Rajneesh Noonia
VbScript Editor With Intellisense
by Axonn Echysttas
How to communicate between a VC++ DLL and a VB 6 application (but not only).
by Ashutosh Phoujdar
A small utility to verify checksums.
by Fernando Finelli
Verify Windows Open in Visual Basic
by ISpliter
When discussing VB6, we should look at the reality of the situation and not on preconceived opinions. New source code projects are made daily in Visual Basic 6.0. The paper proposes the reintroduction of Visual Basic 6.0 on the market, in parallel with Visual Studio line.
by Joe Lynds
Use the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service from .NET.
by jebarson
Timeless or non-progress based waiting / progress control using WPF
by nedal_jo_jo
Weather Using VB.NET and Yahoo RSS!
by konma
This application is a simple webserver with winsocks
by Wauna
Calculate this same weekday of month last year
by Louwgi
What is a PGN file and how to write PGN files
by daylightdj
When is writing to memory slower than writing to disk? When it's VB 6
by tricos
Windows Forms Validation w/ ErrorProvider Control Quickly (Validate Whole Form at Once)
by virtual.aussie
A custom made TreeView with Windows Vista look.
by Mohd Arshad Malik
Working with Multiple Images with Each TreeNode
by LarryCharlton
A WPF XAML markup extension with a "Glass" look
by QUIETTA
Processing complex HTML pages will require sectional or content exclusion
by Duncan Edwards Jones
Part 2 in the series showing how to write a debugger in VB
by Ravindranath Maddela
VB.NET LINQ query on an XML file.
by Amit Dey
Writing a Word Addin using COM and VB Macros
by Chris Boss
Writing custom control classes the old fashioned way (no .NET or COM classes) is a lost art, but it is not too difficult to learn.
by Oz Ben Eliezer
An article about using I/O Completion Ports and Winsock to write robust and scalable Windows server applications
by Patel Pranav
How to Use XML to Serialize and Deserialize an Object
by Brian Aberle
Obtaining data marked up in XML creates the need for Application Layer tools to easily and efficiently work with XML data.
by Hans Dietrich
Add Winsock error lookup to your C++ or VB app with this DLL.
by Hans Maerki
ZULU is a simple tool to create websites with navigation - using excel.