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VB6 - Netgear Telnet
I upgraded my Internet connection and discovered that my old Netgear router just didn't have the capacity to keep up with it. I kept that old one around because I had several, and I really appreciated...
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[VB6] Common Dialog Replacement - IFileDialog Vista+
Attached is a working example of using the IFileDialog interface introduced in Vista. It is the replacement for the common dialog used for opening/saving files and browsing for folders. This code is...
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[VB6] Creating/Using COM Interfaces without TLBs
This idea was something I just wondered if I could do. So, when I figured it out, wasn't too difficult to create a mostly generic template that could be used & re-used as needed. And that's what we...
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[VB6] Common Dialog Replacement - IFileDialog Vista+ (No TLBs)
Updated/Revamped a bit: 17 Jan 2015 Attached is a working example of using the IFileDialog interface introduced in Vista. It is the replacement for the common dialog used for opening/saving files and...
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[VB6] Using the new IFileDialog interface for customizable Open/Save (TLB,...
LaVolpe put out an excellent class module that implements these interfaces, but I've been working on using them through a different approach for some time and wanted to post it as well since, while...
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[VB6] Modern Shell Interface Type Library - oleexp.tlb
oleexp.tlb : Modern Shell Interfaces Current Version: 1.3Previously the latest version of this sub-project was just included in whatever code I released that depended on it, but now I'm going to make...
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[VB6] Win7 Taskbar Features with ITaskbarList3 (overlay, progress in taskbar,...
ITaskbarList Demo Windows 7 introduced the ITaskbarList3 and ITaskbarList4 interfaces that added a number of new features to the taskbar for your program. The most commonly seen is the ability to turn...
View ArticleHSV and RGB conversion
Here's some code I wrote that you can place in a Module and use in any graphics program that needs to convert RGB to HSV or HSV to RGB. Code: Public Sub RGBtoHSV(ByVal R As Byte, ByVal G As Byte, ByVal...
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VB6 QR-Encoding+Decoding and IME-Window-Positioning
This Demo depends on vbRichClient5 (version 5.0.21 and higher), as well as the latest vbWidgets.dll. One can download both new packages from the Download-page at:...
View ArticleWebBrowser GET method hook
Hi, i'm trying to hook the all GET query method during the page loading. but what i know is that 'BeforeNavigate' method for the first url query. i mean as soon as i hit the specific url which is...
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[VB6] Virtual 5.0 ListView
Here is another take on the classic vbVision Virtual ListView from 2001. It has been substantially reworked to remove the IDE-testing dependency on the old Dbgwproc.dll that most people don't even have...
View Article[VB6] FYI: a better `Property Timer As Single`
`Timer` global property comes handy for measuring elapsed time or for logging time-stamps. It basically returns number of seconds since midnight with 2 digits precision. Usually to measure elapsed...
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[VB6] High Quality Multimodal Printing
This is a refinement of a .BAS module I answered a question thread with. Basically the module has some helper functions for printing. These let you print in a non-WYSIWYG manner in a sort of "desktop...
View ArticleSimple Delay Sub
Below is some code that enables you to delay execution for a specified number of milliseconds. It uses DoEvents and Sleep to minimize the CPU load when waiting for the specified time. This runs in...
View ArticleMsgBox replacement with Optional Timeout
The code below is a replacement for MsgBox that is Unicode, runs on VB5/VB6 and all versions of VBA including 64-bit as in 64-bit Office 2010 and later. It uses an undocumented function for an optional...
View ArticleVB6 - Converting Unicode strings to Byte Array
Visual Basic stores all strings as double wide characters (16 bits). This is no big deal if you are using standard ASCII characters (7 bits), as the first 9 bits are always zero. But when you need to...
View Article[VB6] Subclassing With Common Controls Library
Subclassing... An advanced topic that has become much easier over the years. About the only thing that can be considered advanced nowadays is the added research subclassing requires to properly handle...
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[Experimental] VB6 FastCGI Server
I was daydreaming about developing a web interface for my VB6 program, and I thought I'd play around with the Nginx web server since it is dead easy to deploy (no installer required), and LGPL. Nginx...
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[VB6] - 3D Fir-tree.
Once I've done this, but this time I added the ability to adjust your creation. To work needed dx8vb.dll (inside the archive, put in a folder with the program). Output by double-clicking....
View Article[VB6] - Kernel mode driver.
Hello everyone (sorry my English). There was a time, and decided to write something unusual on VB6, namely to try to write a driver. I must say before that I never wrote a driver and have no...
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