Saving the properties of your usercontrol

VB6 drag resize window form

Get the address of Variables and Objects in Visual Basic

Object Oriented Visual Basic

• A really great demonstration of extension of features of an FlexGrid Object using a class module.   Source code here    This example extends the flexgrid component so you can use it to edit the values in it.

Access Database

• recordset.Fields("FieldName").Value recordset.Fields(IndexNumber).Value recordset(IndexNumber).Value recordset!FieldName
• Searching inside a recordset
• Understanding VB6 Plugins
• Access SQL 
• Using ado and stored procedures

Access Database in RAM

• Disconnected ADO recordset

VB String functions

Problems with Microsoft mdb access databases 

• Error message when you enter a large amount of text in a Memo field that contains an index in Access: "Run-time error '3709'"      Solution:  Delete all the Indexes except the auto incremented ID 

DAO Issues with VB project using database references   SOLUTION:  Microsoft left vb5db.dll off its distribution list! 

The solution to all the microsoft database distribution problems! == vb5db.dll is not included in vb6 redist.txt

Microsoft MDB SQL References

• A good summary of the commands available Introduction to MDB SQL
• Using Microsoft Access to design VB6 database queries
• VB6 Database Tutorials
• Visual Basic & ADO Tutorial
• Access DB – Create Table with AutoNumber Indexed Field
• Using ADO and the ListView control
• Introduction to SQL

Additional Issue:  DAo350.dll not being registered by my installation package

• Google Search: DllRegisterServer dll site:thraexsoftware.com/forum
• Thraex forum issue that  covers DAO350.dll not registering and using regsvr32.exe to register it

RichText Box

• Text box line numbering
• Rich TextBox syntax coloring
• Insert a picture into a Rich TextBox
• How to configure a rich textbox for WYSIWYG

Thraex Installer Issues

Writing Standard DLL using Visual Basic

• DLL Internals
• Google Search: vb6 how to create use dll
• Planet Source Code Search:  Visual Basic DLL
• WindowsDevCenter article that inspired most of the following articles
• VB Helper – This examples builds a standard DLL that you can call by using the normal DLL calling conventions.
• Planet-Source-Code.com – VB6 Standard DLL .def Generator
• Planet-Source-Code.com – Active X DLL Made Into Windows DLL
• VB Helper – Make an ActiveX DLL or EXE

SubClassing

• VB Helper on SubClassing

Syntax Issues

• ASCII string to Binary array conversion    uses StrConv – x = StrConv("abcdef", vbFromUnicode)  to do the whole string at once yielding a byte array.

Using Scintilla / SciTE with VB

• Scintilla Settings / Configuration File
• vb6 Using Scintilla SciLexer DLL

VB-CoolMenu

Using Scintilla with the VB6 IDE

• Before You Create a VB Add-In, Learn the IDE's Object Model
• Explanation of vb6 Add In operation
• How To Create a Basic Add-in Using VB5 or VB6
• Creating a Visual Basic 6 Add-In
• Auto Indent VB code add in
• Code Project: Create VB Add Ins
• MZ-Tools addin – freeware
• CodeSmart – for vb6 edit environment – has code folding?

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