Visual Basic 6 Code Sample

A basic example of using Jason's MP3 Class Module to create an MP3 Player that uses the winmm.dll (Uses Api). This was made using Visual Basic 6.0, but should work with any 32 Bit Visual Basic. Download: MPlay3 hostyle Source code from mPlay3. Download these Microsoft Visual Basic samples to learn more about upgrading your application from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET. Each sample contains three projects - one in Visual Basic 6 and two in Visual Basic.NET. The two Visual Basic.NET samples show the range of options available in upgrading your applications. The source code in Total Visual Sourcebook includes modules and classes for Microsoft Access, Visual Basic 6 (VB6), and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) developers. Easily add this professionally written, tested, and documented royalty-free code into your applications to simplify your application development efforts.

Visual Basic Programs With Codes

Basic

Visual Basic is one of the popular programming languages for students requirement to develop their educational projects. We are providing all the visual basic sql server projects with source code and database according to students purpose. A student can use these projects by changing according to their need of functionality. Here students can download latest and new projects on visual basic 6.0 projects with ms access database. These projects are very helpful and useful for students to learn project development on Visual Basic. VB database projects mostly use oracle database for projects development.

Code examples have been used wherever they became necessary. Graphic methods The graphic methods allow you to draw on the form and the PictureBox control. In Visual Basic 6, graphic methods are only supported by the form object and the PictureBox control. However, the later versions of Visual Basic allow you to use them with other objects. Adding an ActiveX Event Callback Function in Visual Basic 6.0. Wiring the ActiveX for events is easy. First, display the 'Code View' in the VB6 IDE and select the object you previously declared 'WithEvents', as shown below: Next, select the event: Visual Basic will automatically generate the event procedure for you.

Many visual basic database projects are available in our website Freeprojectz.com. Freeprojectz is one of the largest student portals for projects. Our site is very useful for students help to develop and learn their projects code, synopsis, Er-diagram and documentation of the projects. We provide projects for BCA, MCA, BTech, MTech and computer science student, who get the vb6 source code with source code, database and documentation. Computer science students can search and get for latest VB projects, Visual Basic 6.0 project with source code, database, and documentation. Visual Basic download projects, download all Visual Basic projects, abstract, ideas, report etc. These projects have the complete source code for vb and ms access projects free download that students can learn and modify as their requirement.

C# / .NET Code Samples
DotNetResourcesExtract v1.00
DotNetResourcesExtract is a small utility that scan dll/exe files of .NET applications, and extract all .NET embedded resources (Bitmaps, Gifs, HTML files, and so on) stored in them into the folder that you specify.
Visual C++ Code Samples And Utilities
Visual Basic 6 Code Sample
Source Code Samples

Visual Basic 6 Code Samples

Changing the screen brightness programmingly - By using the Gamma Ramp API
Some video cards allows you to programmingly modify the Gamma Ramp values.You can use this feature to change the brightness of the entire screen.
Preventing application crash by using exception handling mechanism
When a program does something wrong, for example, reading from invalid memory address,the operating system displays a 'crash' window with information about the problem that caused the exception,and terminates the application. This sample project demonstrates how to avoidthis kind of crashes, display your own exception information window,and allow the user to continue running the application after the exception occurred.
Moving items up and down in a ListView control.
In some occasions, you might want to allow the user the change the order of items in the ListView, by moving the selected items up and down. In the API of ListView control, there is no support for swapping between 2 items. The only way to do that, is by manually swapping all data of the items, including the lParam value and all columns !
Displaying 'Browse Folders' dialog with the default folder selected.
The 'Browse For Folder' dialog allows the user to select a folder from all available local drives and network resources. This code snippet demonstrate how to display this dialog-box.
Displaying the 'Properties' of a file or folder.
When you select a file or folder in Explorer window, and choose 'Properties' from the menu, you get the properties window that contains some essential information about the file: The size of file, created date, modified date, attributes, and so on.It's possible to display this properties window programmatically, by using the ShellExecuteEx API function.
Enumerating Windows credentials with CredEnumerate function
This code sample enumerates all credentials of the current logged on user,and dump them into the standard output.
Utilities With Full Source Code
Sample visual basic program code
ExeInfo v1.01
The ExeInfo utility shows general information about executable files (*.exe), dynamic-link libraries (*.dll),ocx files, and drivers files.
AtNow v1.1
AtNow is a command-line utility that schedules programs and commands to run in the near future.
WinExplorer v1.30
WinExplorer is a utility that shows all system's windows in hierarchical display.
For every window in the hierarchy, you can view its properties, like handle, class name, caption, size, position and more. You can also modify some properties, like Caption and Visible/Enable.
Visual Basic Code Snippets and Utilities

In the following section, you can find a variety of Visual Basic code samples. For every sample, you can download the entire project for opening in Visual Basic 6.0.

Visual Basic 2010 Code Samples

Revealing the passwords behind asterisks in Internet Explorer
This small utility reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks in the web pages of Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.
Creating a real console application in Visual Basic !
Although the Visual Basic compiler doesn't allow officially to create console applications, it's possible to do it with a simple trick.
Read more >>
Revealing the passwords behind asterisks
This code snippet scans all opened windows, and reveals the passwordsbehind the password text-boxes.
Access 95/97 Password Revealer
This small utility reveals the database password of Microsoft Access files.
It works only with version 95 and 97 of Microsoft Access.
System resources in Windows 95/98
This code snippet shows the percentages of free system resources in Windows 95 and Windows 98.
Fast string concatenation
With this class, you can concatenate small strings into one big string in faster way than the standard '&' operator.
Using bidi32.dll for Logical-Visual conversion
This code snippet is designated for using in bidirectional systems only (Hebrew and Arabic).
It uses the functions in bidi32.dll to convert strings from Visual to Logical and from Logical to Visual.
Painting a Gradient between 2 colors on a form
This code snippet shows how to paint a gradient on a form using Win32 API.
Drawing a rotated text on a form
This code snippet demonstrate how to draw a rotated text on a form.
Creating a circle shaped window
This code snippet demonstrates how to create a circle shaped window, by using a few Win32 API calls.
Web client tester
With this small utility, you can send HTTP queries and see how the servers responds to those queries.
Faster items adding in ComboBox
This code snippet shows you how to add combo items with Win32 API. It's much faster than using the AddItem method of VB.
Faster items adding in ComboBox (with item data)
This code snippet shows you how to add combo items (both strings and items data) with Win32 API. It's much faster than using the AddItem method of VB.
Executing Control Panel applets
This code snippet shows how to run standard Control Panel applets (Display Properties, Reginal Settings, Mouse Properties, and more)from Visual Basic code.
Converting network drive-based path to universal path name
This code snippet shows how to use the WNetGetUniversalName for convertingnetwork drive-based path (Like I:windows) to universal path name (Like MyComputercwindows)
Opening special Explorer windows
This code snippet shows you how to open special Explorer windows, like My Computer, Control Panel, Printers, Fonts and more...
DoEvents alternative function
This code snippet shows how to create an alternative function for the standard DoEvents function.
Registering and using a new window class
This code snippet shows you how to register a new window class in Visual Basic anduse that class to create new windows, and show them on a form.
Displaying and using a dialog box from external DLL file
This code sample shows you how to display a dialog box from external DLL file.In this sample, the standard 'Run' dialog of Microsoft Windows is shown on the screen.
Displaying the 'Shut Down Windows' dialog
This code snippet displays the 'Shut Down Windows' by using undocumented API in shell32.dll
Getting the filename of an ActiveX class name