Articles & Tutorials 
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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.. 
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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..
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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.
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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..
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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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Instead of using static paths like 'C:\WinNT\' in your programs and making it not work on Windows 9x OS's, use the power of the Win32 API to retrieve the important system paths! This article explores a few alternative methods of retrieving some of the core System folders in the win32 enviroment..
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Bruce Johnson gives a basic introduction on the use of MSMQ from within Visual Basic..
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This tutorial will guide you through step-by-step on how to talk and make the computer talk back to you. The computer can actually understand what you say!.
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This is a tutorial on how to create a basic text-to-speech program using microsoft direct text-to-speech..
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The article demonstrates how to use OLE automation in VB. We can launch word, create a new document and let the user save it all from our VB program!.
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Learn the trick of creating your own Add-Ins for Visual Basic.
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Bugs are part of every product development process. How do you track the bugs you find during product development and after? .
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How to build your first speech recognition program in VB!.
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How to use number functions in VB.
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Don't let VB give the user a meaningless error message, and then close your application! Use error handling, and provide a useful error message (ie Please insert a disk), without crashing your applica.
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How to use the Timer control to regularly trigger code at a specified interval..
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Learn how to use all the tools available to you in VB to help track down those annoying bugs, saving you valuable time..
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Want to know how to record and create Macros in Excel, apply formatting, add formulae and autofill values? Take a look at this extensive tutorial..
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How to create HTML Help files with help files and images, an index, contents, and a search facility, and add it to your application..
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Find out how to tune your applications to peak performance, decrease program size, save time using the 'magic' $, and reduce memory usage all in this great tutorial..
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Polymorphism is one of the elite programming terms found only in the upper echelons of the Visual Basic world. In this tutorial, vbweb.co.uk simplifies the topic and shows how everyone can benefit fro.
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How to save your program preferences to the registry..
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This article quickly describes the different 'scopes' a variable, procedure, or any other object in VB can have..
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Extracts from a number of MSDN articles on coding and naming conventions in VB..
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Find out about VB's roots, what it is exactly, and other VB issues..
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Learn how to write help files for your applications, and why you should bother!.
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Learn about the new Windows Installer technology, how to create your own installations using the Visual Studio Installer and a review of Wise for Windows Installer. What more could you ask for?!.
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How to perform mathematical operations, including rounding, square roots, logarithms etc..