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VBFlexGrid Control (Replacement of the MSFlexGrid control)
This project is intended to replace the MSFlexGrid control for VB6. The "MSFLXGRD.OCX" can be replaced completly. Even though some enhancements of the MSHFlexGrid control are included, it can't replace...
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VB6 - Fisher–Yates shuffle
Attached is a short demonstration of the Fisher–Yates shuffle. In this particular case we wanted to be able to restore the shuffle back to it's original format, so we had to ensure that the Random...
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VB6 ThemedControls.ocx (uxTheme-based replacements for SSTab and VB.Frame)
The title says it already - this is a project which shows how to use the uxTheme.dll (without any involvement of the comctl32.dll), to render directly onto the default-hWnd of a VB6-UserControl. In the...
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Layered Form + InkPicture = DoodleTop
One of the things we got when mainstream desktop Windows inherited the infrastructure from XP Tablet Edition was the InkPicture control. While there are lot of things you can do with this, few people...
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[VB6] Bi-Color Dot/Dash using drawing methods
Most of us are already aware of the limitations of DrawStyle with the VB6 drawing methods (Line and Circle). The main one being that even a "dot" is more of a "dash" and more importantly that these are...
View ArticleFormatNumber Function for Other VB6
If anyone can improve it, feel free, and please post your improved function this thread. Code: Private Function FormatNumber(Expression As String, _ Â Â Â Optional NumDigitsAfterDecimal As Integer,...
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VB6 - IPWhois V3
IPWhois is a utility program that can be used to query Whois servers to find out where and to whom an IP address is assigned. Now why would you want to do that? There are some instances when all you...
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Utility to generate code to create Access databases using DAO, based on a...
This utility can be used to generate the code to create an Access *.mdb database using DAO, based on a model database file. If you want to avoid shipping an empty database with your program, then you...
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VB6 - Base64 Encoding
Below is a class to encode strings or files in Base64. The data can be sent to the class as an ANSI string, a Unicode string, or a Byte Array. The sample program provided demonstrates the usage. J.A....
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VB6 - File Transfer
During the process of upgrading my JACMail program to use SimpleSock, I ran into an issue when transferring large attachments. The program became noticeably faster using SimpleSock, but that speed...
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[vb6] Unicode Browse For Folder
This is a unicode-compatible "Browse For Folder" dialog implementation. It offers options to customize the dialog beyond simple examples you may have seen. I have moved this to its own thread from the...
View Article[vb6] Block execution until Async method finishes
This is a different approach and has a niche. Won't be a solution in all cases. If you are calling a function that is asynchronous, but you want to wait until it finishes before the next line of code...
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ColourPicker [vbRichClient]
Replacement/alternative to the CommonDialog colour picker, requires a reference to Olaf's vbRichClient5.dll. Might have implemented this differently (i.e. fully RC5 widget-ified) but I was in a bit of...
View ArticleWin 10 Registry issue
Have struck a snag getting a vb6 prog that I've been using with Win XP to run OK in Win 10. The problem is the Registry Class. It seems it will write a value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER but not to...
View ArticleLDB Viewer
I need to add a LDB/LACCDB viewer on a client site, in order to check which are the users connected to an Access DB. I have implemented such as follow (this code was made 10 years ago) You call it like...
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[VB6] Exclude file types from Open/Save Dialogs ('all except...'):...
IShellItemFilter Demo Normally with an Open/Save dialog, you supply filters of a list of file types you want to display. But what if instead of 'only x', you wanted to filter by 'all except x' or...
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[VB6] VBZeep: An abandoned SOAP Client written in VB6
VBZeep is completely unrelated to the "Zeep: Python SOAP client" which it predates by many, many years. VBZeep is basically some "abandonware" - code I was developing over 6 years ago but never got...
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VB6 - SimpleServer Stress Test
I have been fairly satisfied with the performance of SimpleSock, but even though SimpleServer is being used successfully in a couple of server routines, I have not been able to stress test it. I would...
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.HLP file loader
There's some issues when loading Help files in windows 10. I upgraded from windows 7 to 10, and maybe this is where this problem lies. But I saw all over the same questions on the internet how to fix...
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VB^ - SimpleServer
CSocket was originally developed by Oleg Gdalevich as a replacement for MSWinSck. Emiliano Scavuzzo improved upon it with CSocketMaster, and I converted it to support IPv6 with cSocket2. With...
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