Questions tagged [vb6]
Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) is the "third-generation" event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. It was also considered a relatively easy programming language to learn and use, because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage.
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Faster VB6 / VBA class deallocation
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VB6 / VBA is slow to deallocate class instances
VB* class instance deallocation becomes exponentially slower the more instances ...
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ADODB Wrapper Class (Revisited)
I recently posted this question on my implementation of an ADODB Wrapper Class. I realized in my own review that I was missing some very important things, so much so, that I decided it would be worth ...
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ADODB Wrapper Class
I use ADO (specifically for accessing SQL) daily at work. So, I finally decided that I was going to create a class that makes it simple for myself and other programmers on the job to use. Just the ...
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App for providing accounting solutions for clients
I have a VB6 app that has existed for more than 7 years to which I have a few clients using it for their accounting solutions. Now my problem is that a particular client has grown so big with a 15GB ...
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Format RGB Long as hex string in VB6
This is how I convert e.g. RGB(255, 0, 0) (where red is stored in the least significant byte of a Long) to a 6-digit hex string <...
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Shared VB6 *and* VBA extensibility add-in with OnConnect and OnDisconnect handling
Rubberduck works well enough when the VBE is of the VBA variety, but it currently only works when the Rubberduck is configured to load at VBA start-up, and it has a tendency to crash the host ...
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Multi-dimensional array sort and filter functions
As I said in my last post Multi-dimensional ascending and descending sort array function, I'm back with the final version of the code.
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Filter array function by following parameters: <...
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Implementation of the Access version DBLookup() in VB6
I've tried to implement the access function DBLookup() in VB6 for a project I'm doing. Does anyone have comments on how well done it is and what could be improved? ...
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Growing my own Tree (Structure)
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VB6 doesn't have a great selection of data structures to work with, so again I find myself creating my own. I have a need to dynamically generate a directory structure on the file system. The ...
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Calling Stored Procedures with Lots of Parameters
I have this piece of code for running a Stored Procedure, and I was wondering if there is a way of cutting code like:
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Converting to Roman Numeral with Recursive Algorithm
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I'm getting ready to dive back into a "more proper" project, so I wanted to take a moment to get my TDD hat on before doing so. I decided to tackle this Roman Numeral Kata for practice. The ...
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Building a better Collection. Enumerable in VBA
VBA's 'Collection' is.... lacking, so, I've been working on a better Collection object that implements many of the features of C#'s Enumerable. This is very much inspired by this question and a follow ...
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No more Fizzbuzz. How about Hello World instead?
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples of both ...
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Generating Random RGB Colors
I have a function for generating RGB colors in VB6.0, and it is working properly. Please suggest improvements for this, if any.
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Extract a character at particular place in a string
I have a function:
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