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[VB6] API Open With Dialog with enhanced functionality
All the methods I've seen for bringing up the Open With dialog use rundll32. But Windows Vista and above has a better option: the SHOpenWithDialog API call. This allows a number of different options in...
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[VB6] Image Recovery from Project Files
Not a groundbreaking project by any means. This little project can retrieve images saved within an uncompiled resource file or within project binary files (frx, ctx, dsx, dox, pgx). Resource files. How...
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[VB6] Using the new IFileOperation interface to replace SHFileOperation on...
cFileOperation 0.1 SHFileOperation has been superseded by IFileOperation on Windows Vista and above. At least the basic parts of it are easy to access in VB6- showing the standard Windows...
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VB6 - Chat Client/Server
This is a 2 part program consisting of a server component and a client component. Because the server component services more than one client, the server must use a Socket Array, which requires an...
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[VB6] Use IFileOperation to replace SHFileOperation for modern Copy/Move...
cFileOperation 0.1 Display the latest version of the copy/move/delete progress dialog and the related prompts. SHFileOperation has been superseded by IFileOperation on Windows Vista and above. At least...
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Unicode Textbox
Here's my version of a Unicode & RTF textbox. It's about as full featured as you can get while using the RichTx32.ocx control. Full Unicode and RTF editing while in the IDE design mode. Just...
View ArticleCOMMENT on policies
For one, I TOTALLY support your "no EXE" policy. In fact, I'd extend it to DLL's, OCX's and any other code that can natively run without the user being able to inspect the source code and create their...
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Reading and Writing UTF-16 and UTF-8 Files
Ok, here's my procrastination for the day. I've long been able to read Unicode (UTF-16) files, but I decided I also wanted to read and write UTF-8 files, so I did it. The attached "test" project is the...
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VB6 - DNS Monitor
DNS Monitor is a utility program that allows you to monitor and log DNS requests transiting your network. This program has been around for some time and is by far the most popular download on my Web...
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Radio Buttons as list of buttons and more
I make some additions and a bit of changes that not change the programming schema, but now works fine the trasparency of the control (backstyle=1) (is a copy of the form picture). Also I put a special...
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Textbox validation for integers and float/scientific numbers
This is a replay to this thread http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ttons-and-more Not only we can valid the numbers but this can be done if someone try to select a part of the text and deleted or...
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Unicode OptionButton
Here's a Unicode Option Button. Just see small sample project. It should be self-explanatory. One weakness: You can't paste the caption with pure unicode (without an RTF format being in the clipboard)....
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Zoom Dialog
This is a part of file selectors, and here I made a class to be used more easily. In example is a dialog that can be zoomed, without using any window style. So we can draw anything. The window to zoom...
View ArticleKeep open CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
I am working now changing the old DAO to ADO in my M2000 environment. I see some reduce in speed and I found why...All of my commands use the old DBEngine and workspaces...and so I was to change that...
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Zcreenshot (translucent selection-box seamless screenshot application)
Thought I'd share this awesome little open-source app with tons of useful code examples with VBForums. I've won 2 awards for code of the month over at PlanetSourceCode, and this was one of them. Fully...
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OptionButtonEx (grouping without frames, Unicode at runtime, & lightweight)
Here's what I'm calling OptionButtonEx. It has two features that the regular OptionButton doesn't have: 1) There's a GroupNum property that allows grouping of sets of them without the need for creating...
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[VB6] MS Office (MODI) OCR - OCR "for free"
This may already have been posted, but a search turned nothing up here in the CodeBank. If you have an appropriate version of Microsoft Office you can use MODI to do OCR on images. The obvious...
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[VB6] Code Tip: Toggle Button with Image and Text (Vista+, ComCtl6)
NOTE: I will make a sample project, but since I had deleted this content and there was a 'please delete me' filler I wanted to repost as soon as possible. What happened was, I tried the code I posted,...
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How to make a new Ctrl-Break key.
My new Win 8.1 system keyboard doesn't have a Ctrl-Break key, and I found that extremely annoying when working with Visual Basic. So with some research, I located some info on how to disable the Caps...
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VB6 Dual-Pivot-QuickSort
Just to throw something new (for VB6) into the ring of competing Sort-Algos... I've just finished porting (from Java-SourceCode) the relative new (Sep. 2009) Dual-Pivot-Algorithm, invented by Vladimir...
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