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A no nonsense tutorial designed to give Visual Basic developers an insight into developing VB applications for handheld devices such as PDAs..  -
Most programmers are aware of a few number systems. Decimal, Binary, Octal, etc. VB.NET allows you to work with these number systems, but these alone. What about Duodecimal, Quinquevigesimal, or Roman Numerals? A proof of concept article.. -
This article which is the fourth in this series discusses how you can get the Global Memory Status of a system using the Win32 API from VB. -
The API programming series is a set of articles dealing with a common theme: API programming in Visual Basic. Though there are no hard and fast rules regarding the content of these articles, generally one article can be expected to contain explanation of one or more API calls with generously commented code snippets. Depending on the subject, these code samples may expand to become a full-fledged application.
In this article we see how to bring a window to top.. -
This article demonstrates how you can display the default icon for a given file extension. This is particularly useful for making file sharing and FTP client software etc. I will show you how to take a file name and use it to find and draw its icon in a picture box..
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A small function to convert decimal integer values to a binary string.
The number of bits can be optionally specified but this will be increased if insufficient.. -
A VB6 version of Jon Person's .NET NMEA Interpreter Class as referenced in
'How to Write a GPS Application'.
GPStest.zip contains the class and a simple project demonstrating implementation.. -
This code snippet demonstrates how to open, read and write to excel files. The concept is very simple. Totally aimed at beginners and well commented!. -
This code uses API calls to Hide/Unhide icons on the desktop. This code uses FindWindowEx & ShowWindow API Calls to do the job.. -
What do you do when you want to work with numbers that have a total length of digits that reach into the billions? You sure can't store those in a conventional variable, or perform normal operations on them. This module demonstrates how to perform these..
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Murach's Visual Basic 6 covers everything from beginning VB 6, to extensive coverage of databases, ActiveX components, and other core programming
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This book will show the reader the basics of Visual Basic through friendly,
task oriented examples and a hands on approach. This book and series is specifically
designed for the new Visual .... -
A valuable collection of tools to prevent program bugs and to exterminate them when you find them. The longer a bug exists in a system, the harder it is to locate and repair. From Visual Basic guru....
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Replaces the tiring procedure of starting a command prompt and typing the subst command (!) with a Win32 GUI -
AsciiList is a tiny tool for quickly finding the right ASCII value for a character you need... Added "Always-On-Top" option now... Have fun! -
Allows parallel execution of Visual Basic components. -
This control will attempt to open a given URL using HTTP, and reports back the result to the program (Success, Fail or Timeout). -
The RadioGroup ActiveX control is a useful VB component to replace VB OptionButton control. Easy to set up and use, it enables you to create a convenient group of radio buttons on your Visual Basic Form.
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The Code Generation Network covers all aspects of code generation and model-based development.
The site's resources include a database of code generation tools, interviews with leading exponents of code generation and book reviews on code generation and software development in general. -
Explains confusing floating point errors that can make your program say "10 <> 10." -
An API wrapper that allows you to implement subclassing of any form (VB or other) and all the windows hooks using only a few lines of code - and which raises VB style events for ease of use. -
This zip file contains four projects which implement a number of different desktop effects, including flipping the desktop upside down, displaying a bubble that floats across the desktop, making the d -
Create your own HTML-book from text with txt2html converter! Example also demonstrating how to use the GetOpenFileName API Function to open files.
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