Visual Basic 6 Articles

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A collection of articles about programming with Visual Basic 6.

• Cleaning and Purging a Visual Studio Project Folder with Devenv
  How to use the devenv command to remove temporary build files from the obj and bin sub-folders of a Visual Studio project.
• Determine Windows's Regional Settings for Short Date Format, and Prevent Corrupting Your Database
  How to use the Windows GetLocaleInfo API Function to determine the Regional Settings for the short date format, and ensure that they are set to English (United Kingdom)
• Load File With It's Associated Application Using VB6
  It is a very useful feature to be able to load an external file with the application that is associated with it's extension, from within your Visual Basic code
• Determine the version number of your MDAC installation
  Example Visual Basic 6 code showing you how to programmatically determine the version number of your MDAC installation, allowing you to take appropriate action if the required version is not installed.
• Using SHBrowseForFolder in VB6, a Directory Browser / Selection Tool
  How to use the SHBrowseForFolder function to create a Windows directory browser.
• Splitting multipage TIFF files into single pages using Visual Basic
  Example Visual Basic 6 showing you how to split multipage TIFF files.
• Screen Capture and Thumbnail Creation using Visual Basic & Freeimage
  Screen Capture and Thumbnail Creation using Visual Basic & Freeimage