Vibian - The Mini VB6 Framework
Good day: I found a library which can compete with .net framework. Its was Vibian a single DLL but rich in VB6 functions. Please help them to improve this code and library it has a big potential. Here...
View Article[VB6] Check If a Window is on the Desktop
If you save your window position when your application exits, it's good to check to make sure that the monitor it was on is still there and is the same size it used to be when you start up. This code...
View ArticleVB6 Simple View-SQL-Editor for JET-mdb's
Just a little Demo (80 lines of code) which could easily be enhanced (with a little love) - to real "Tool-Status". For example when a "full Access-Installation" is not given on some machine or...
View ArticleVB6 StarRating-Control (cairo-Rendering)
This is an implementation, based on Vector-Drawing (with the cairo-Wrapper-Classes from vbRichClient5). No (PNG- or other) Images were used - just plain Drawing-Commands (to gain more flexibility with...
View Article[VB6] IcoWriter - Yet another "hIcon to array/file saver"
IcoWriter is a VB6 class that can be used to save hIcon handles into ICO format. it can provide them as a Byte array or write them to a disk file you provide a name for. Details Unlike some sample code...
View Article[VB6] Basic unzip without 3rd party DLL or shell32- IStorage-based
So the only other method I've really seen to extract zip archives without shell32 or a 3rd party DLL is a full implementation of the ZIP algorithm, and while this isn't exactly a lightweight method,...
View Article[VB6] Code Snippet: Get/set/del file zone identifier (Run file from internet?...
So I'm sure everyone has been asked by Explorer whether or not they want to open a file they downloaded from the internet. But how does Explorer know whether or not to ask this question? This...
View ArticleVB6 ViewPort-Handling per cairo
A simple Demo, how to work with a larger Image in conjunction with a smaller ViewPort, using Cairo-ImageSurfaces and their Transformation-methods (Translate, Scale, Rotate), to make this task a quite...
View Article[VB6] Enumerate Services
The demo project below shows how to enumerate the services on the local computer using the EnumServicesStatusEx API function. The project also demonstrates how to retrieve various properties of the...
View ArticleIStream Manager: Consolidate, Access Stream Data
Attached is a self-contained class that manages IStream objects. These IStreams can be created by the class and/or passed to the class for management and accessibility. The class creates an IStorage...
View Article[VB6] Push to Pushbullet Demo
Pushbullet is a service and set of applications that can mirror notifications, files, links, SMS messages, etc. among your devices (Android, iOS, PC, browser) and recently added chat features. The...
View ArticleEasy image disp/edit; scale/rotate, show animated gifs, conv2JPG, +more; No...
Shell Image Interfaces Project Description Windows provides a good bit of image functionality built in and accessible through simple interfaces rather than fairly complicated API. A number of these...
View ArticleVB6 in AppServer-scenarios (DCOM Replacement per RC5)
In the early days of VB6-usage there was DCOM (later superseded by COM+). It came with the promise of easy cross-machine-calls (RPCs) by simply using the second (optional) Parameter [ServerName] of the...
View ArticleDev tool: typedef Converter - Convert C/C++/IDL typedef struct and typedef...
After spending way too much time doing this manually, this idea came to be. I use this extraordinarily frequently, so thought someone else might one day have a use for it. The title pretty much sums it...
View Article[Vista+] Code Snippet: Get and set the Rating (stars) of a file
In Explorer, things like Pictures and some other types have a 'Rating' property category that shows a 0-5 star rating. You can get and set this rating programmatically, and this also provides a basis...
View ArticleLynxGrid..Modifications
This is a 'rar' file...I just added a '.zip' extension. The modified LynxGrid that I abandoned for vhGrid might be useful to someone. Note: the coding is very ugly or basic. LucasMKG saying Hala to...
View Article[VB6] UserControl Ambient.UserMode workaround
For you usercontrol (UC) creators out there. Everyone else -- won't apply to you. Ambient.UserMode tells us whether the UC's container is in design mode or user mode/run-time. Unfortunately, this isn't...
View ArticleSHBrowseForFolder: Handling a choice of Libraries (or Library), Computer, or...
ChooseFolderEx Project Summary So if you've ever used a folder choose based on SHBrowseForFolder, you'll notice that most functions that turn its result (a pidl) into a file system path will return...
View ArticleSHChangeNotifyRegister updated and corrected, including new delivery method
So there's two reasons why I wanted to post this, 1) The examples on popular sites like VBNet and Brad Martinez's site have several errors, and 2) MSDN states that as of XP and later, all clients...
View Article[vb6] Extending VB's Image Control for PNG, TIFF, and more [v1.1]
UPDATED on 11 Oct 2015. Major revision. Added animated GIF and mutlipage TIFF support. Any previous version must be thrown away. You do not want to run both in the same project, trust me! 12 Oct 2015:...
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