Posts related to the classic Visual Basic 6.0 language
You wouldn’t be thinking of doing this unless you’re supporting old/legacy applications that cannot be upgraded. Heck, you might not even know what VB6 is 🙂 That’s exactly why this kind of article rarely ever gets written 🙂 And that’s one of the main reasons I created a blog — so I can post these …
Multi-verse of Basic: Using VB.Net Control in VB6 Application Read More »
This is just a “fun” coding blog, but who knows, maybe you’ll find a good use for it on your projects 🙂 The goal is simple — move the control somewhere else — just like magic 🙂 Design (Setup) Super simple, just add the following to the default form: Command Button (to trigger the action) …
To most VB6 programmers, how the application behaves is based on how it was written — prior to compiling, that is. There’s just no way you can make it behave differently or dynamically once you compile it, right? Well, you’re right…. meaning, whether your VB6 code is dynamic or not depends on how you wrote …
Once upon a time, from a galaxy of long ago…. before dot Net, before the sockets, there was DDE… and it was good 🙂 Had to do that intro (LOL), this is a very old technology and very few VB6 programmers would even know this exist at all. You can Google what this is, but …
Yes, you read that right 🙂 Back in 2007 or so, I was trying to understand how web servers work — coming from a desktop application background. All my programming life, I write desktop applications both standalone and networked (like a chat using raw sockets or using MSMQ for reliable message transport). The web was …
Let’s do some multiverse madness here and do something specific but do it across different programming languages! 🙂 For this one, let’s make the class or rather the instance of it — callable; that is, instead of the client invoking its method, we invoke itself. What do I mean by this? Most of us call …
Let’s do something fun with VB6! Let’s try to create a Paint application! As soon as I learned about PictureBox in VB6, I’ve always wondered how to create an application like MS Paint, but start with something super basic — just be able to draw something on the PictureBox. Decades ago I created that but …
This is part 2 or a follow up blog of the previous VB6 blog regarding ByVal and ByRef which explores a use case that I often use when defining functions where I return a boolean and pass the value through parameter(s). If you haven’t read that blog, here’s the link (cause this expects you to …
One of the things new (or even experienced) VB6 programmers need to know about are the relevance/importance of ByVal and ByRef when passing parameters to a function or subroutine, as not knowing this could cause hard-to-detect bugs and unexpected results — and not being able to create more advanced codes. ByVal ByVal means pass “by …
Have you seen this in any VB6 projects you’ve ever worked on? If you haven’t, or have but didn’t understand what this is, read on cause I’ll tell you what it is and why and when you want to use this. PublicNotCreatable is one of the values that you can set for the class Instancing …