Posts related to the classic Visual Basic 6.0 language
If you’ve been using VB.Net or any modern programming languages, you’ve probably used Try..Catch (or try..except) when performing routines that could potentially fail. But in the classic Visual Basic 6.0 language, there is no such construct… right? Technically there’s none…but…there is a way to mimic that behavior — or at least the mechanism using pure/native …
Background Visual Basic 6.0 doesn’t really have a built-in function to encrypt or decrypt text but sometimes you need them in your projects like when you need to encrypt a license key or a configuration, or you just want to protect a text during transmission (example, when you have 2 or more VB6 applications that …
Continued from the last article I posted, we’re now going to cover PolyMorphism in VB6. To do that, we need an abstract class (interface), and at least one concrete class (implementation), so let’s go ahead and do that. Creating the abstract class (Interface) Using the same project from last article, we’re going to add a …
This is a continuation of the previous article “OOP in VB6?”. If you haven’t read that one, be sure to read it first and then get back to this. You can read the previous article by clicking on the title “OOP in VB6?” below: If you want to code-along with me, we’ll be using the …
When you think of OOP (Object-Oriented Programming), VB6 is probably not what you have in mind. But out of either 3 or 4 pillars of OOP (depending on when you read OOP), VB6 actually has 2 of 3 (or 3/4). What are the pillars of OOP? There were 3 generally known pillars of OOP back …
No, it’s not exactly a console app, but it’s possible to create a functional VB6 application that doesn’t have a form in it. Quite confusing and surprising even to most long time VB6 programmers and they even think it’s a joke 🙂 And their reactions are valid, since every time you create a new project …
It’s quite rare to encounter programs written in VB6 that can generate a dynamic number of controls on the fly. The primary reason is that there’s rarely any business or industry that uses VB6 which would require it. One industry would be gaming, but a more common one is semiconductor. Although creating a control dynamically …