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| Excel VBA (Easy Excel Macros) | A good introduction to basic VBA programming in Excel. It has tutorials in recording macros, handling errors, working with Excel objects, calculating with Excel, working with Ranges, creating UserForms, etc. |
| CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB | A tool that adds a bunch of refactoring and software development features to the IDE including: duplicate lines, highlighting references, create overload, reorder parameters, and much more. Big drawback: doesn't support Visual Studio Express Editions. (Ironic since the word "Xpress" is in this product's name.) |
| Refactor! Pro for Visual Studio | Refactoring tools for Visual Studio including: case to conditional, extract method, For to For Each, create setter, etc. $99. |
| InvestInTech: Tips for Working With Microsoft Software | A brief description of Exchange and Sharepoint, plus links to more informationn about them and .NET programming in general. |
| Mr. Bool | A bunch of short, free video tutorials (around 15 minutes each) on Visual Basic, C#, etc. |
| Nordicaccess | A dozen or so Visual Basic examples and videos. |
| vbDreamers | Half a dozen forums for each of VB 6 and VB .NET. |
| Happy Codings | A fairly large collection of useful code snippets for Visual Basic and some other languages. No explanations but still some useful stuff. |
| Visual Basic Development Issues | A collection of blog entries discussion various Visual Basic 2005 issues. |
| VB.NET Tutorials and source code for beginers [sic] | A small collection of tutorials for beginners. |
| dotNetVideos.net | More than 100 free videos explaining various .NET programming topics. |
| FreeTutes.com: Visual Basic 6 | Free beginner-level tutorials describing Visual Basic 6 fundamentals. |
| Top Rules for the Windows Vista User Experience | Microsoft's latest user interface advice for building applications in Vista. I don't agree with them all and they should learn to take their own advice but worthwhile reading. |
| Shrinkwrap Visual Basic | Lots of downloads, tips, examples, and OCXs. A particular focus on video, capture, etc. High quality stuff. |
| Instant VB | C# to Visual Basic converter. I've heard good things about this product. It converts entire C# or ASP.NET projects, solutions, folders, and snippets. It claims to be 99%+ correct and I think they may be right. $179. There's a 15-day money bnack guarantee and a demo version. Tangible Software Solutions also has products that convert: VB to C#, C# to C++, and C++ to C#, and a product that cleans up VB .NET code written in VB 6 style. |
| uCalc Free Math Parser 2.9 | A free mathematical expression parser that works with Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, Delphi, C++, and other languages. |
| Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center | While Microsoft wants everyone to switch over to Visual Basic .NET or C#, Visual Basic 6 isn't completely dead. This page contains links to resources, recommendations for using Visual Basic 6 with Visual Basic .NET, and tools for upgrading to Visual Basic .NET.
Currently the "Other VB Web Sites" links on the right lists VB Helper at the top!
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| Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista | Information about Visual Basic 6 support in Vista including information about the VB 6 runtime. The executive summary is:
The Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows® Vista™. The Visual Basic team’s goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications that run on Windows XP will also run on Windows Vista. The Visual Basic team is also committed to the Visual Basic 6.0 development environment running on Windows Vista. As detailed in this document, the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of Windows Vista, which is five years of mainstream support followed by five years of extended support (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy).
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| Code Snippet Editor for Visual Basic .NET | Allows you to write code snippets in an editor rather than as raw XML. Comes with 500+ pre-written snippets. The Web page describes the snippet categories. |
| Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Home Page | Learn about and download Visual Studio Express products (including Visual Basic 2005 Express). |
| Visual Studio 2005 Product Line Overview | Compare Visual Studio versions. Find out what features are included in the Express, Standard, Professional, VSTO, and Team System versions. |
| Visual Basic 2005, How To Buy | If you decide that the Express Edition isn't good enough for you, this page gives pricing and purchasing information for different Visual Basic 2005 editions, plus some other packages such as Team Foundation Server and MSDN subscriptions. |
| PicFormat32 | A free compiled OCX and LIB that can save BMP files to GIF or JPG, and vice versa. |
| Visual Basic Version Comparison Chart | Compares features in the Visual Basic 2005 Express, Standard, and Professional editions. |
| A Hobbyist's Review of Visual Basic 2005 Express | A quick but useful introduction for non VB .NET developers. |
| SQL Quiz | Test and improve your SQL and database knowledge for free. |
| Database Dir | Short descriptions of the most popular Relational Database Management Systems including reviews and information about features, scalability, and performance. |
| Free Source Code | Source code for more than 4300 VB and VB .NET examples. It's a German site but you can probably figure out most of the examples. |
| VB Keys | A smallish VB 6 site with a nice appearance and some useful examples. It doesn't have much documentation, just examples that you can download (plus lots of ads to ignore). |
| getObject.com - SetVB2Java | A tool for converting Visual Basic 3.0 through 6.0 code into Java Swing. |
| Compare MSDN Subscriptions | Chart comparing the Visual Studio + MSDN Subscriptions: Visual Studio Team Suite w/MSDN Premium, Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects w/MSDN Premium, Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers w/MSDN Premium, etc. |
| Visual Basic Editions | Chart comparing the Visual Basic 2005 Express, Standard, and Professional editions. |
| TechInterviews.com: Visual Basic questions | Interview questions for VB programmers. |
| TechInterviews.com: Visual Basic categories | Interview questions for various VB categories such as ASP, VB programmer, basic VB, .NET, etc. |
| Adit Software: VB6 PrintGrid module | Documentation, source code, and installation instructions for VB 6 code that prints the MsFlexgrid control with a single line of code. |
| Adit Software: .NET ListViewPrint class | A class that provides printing capabilities for the ListView control. Get a program that demonstrates the ListViewPrint and GridViewPrint classes here. |
| Adit Software: .NET DataGridPrint class | A class that provides printing capabilities for the DataGrid control. Get a program that demonstrates the ListViewPrint and GridViewPrint classes here. |
| pinvoke.NET | .NET declarations for API calls. |
| WinMerge | Open Source visual text file difference and merge tool. |
| PrettyCode.Print for VB6/VBA | Nicely formatted printing for VB 6 and VBA. $89. |
| PrettyCode.Print for .NET | Nicely formatted printing for VB .NET and C#. $99. |
| Database Directory | A list of brief database definitions and articles describing different databases such as DB2, Informix, MySQL, etc. |
| FreeImage Library | A powerful library that lets VB 6 and .NET programs manipulate images in a huge number of formats. Thanks to Martijn Coppoolse for pointing this out! |
| Article: Calling .Net Classes from Visual Basic 6 | A very useful article by Peter Aitken. |
| Mick Dohertys DotNet Tips | Some very interesting code snippets and customized controls. |
| Karen Watterson's blog interview with Rod Stephens | Rod answers important questions such as what he says at cocktail parties and in what magazine he published his first article (you'll never guess). |
| VB-Town | A large collection of useful VB 6 examples. |
| irritatedVowel.com | This site contains all sorts of unrelated information on such topics as model railroading, birds, and woodworking projects. This link leads to some decent VB .NET variable naming standards. It's worthwhile to read them. Then adopt the ones you like and modify or discard the ones you don't. |
| abstractvb.com | A nice selection of VB6, VB .NET, and ASP.NET examples for doing useful stuff. |
| Infragistics | Dot net controls and components to help web application developers create web grids, winforms, toolbars, website calenders, etc. |
| DJK's Projects | A Polish site covering Visual Basic and VB.NET programming: theory, articles, samples, libraries, API functions. |
| vbclassic.piranho.com | A German site with lots of VB, VB.NET, and other examples. |
| Dot Net Junkies Code Snippets | Read or post snipppets for VS 2005 here. |
| GotCodeSnippets.Net | Read or post snipppets for VS 2005 here. |
| Moving to VB.NET | A free Webcast available as a video file. |
| VB IDE Team Blog | The Visual Basic IDE Team blog. |
| IntelliSense code snippets FAQs | Information on VB 2005's new code snippets features by the VB Snippet Community Team. |
| Bob Powell's GDI+ FAQ | A pretty good collection of GDI+ tips and articles. |
| Echolist Programming Languages links | A collection of links to programming resources including many Visual Basic sites. |
| Absolute Beginner's Video Series to Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions | More than 10 hours of video for the beginner by Microsoft. |
| Vlasishost.com | Programming Basic | Mostly information about HTML and php, but also a decent collection of Visual Basic links. |
| VBCorLib | A very nice VB site with a set of useful classes, tutorials, documentations, forums, etc. |
| SearchVB.com | Tons of news and information about VB topics: design, database programming, XML, VBA, .NET, ActiveX, etc. |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 | This is a cumulative Service Pack for SQL Server 2000 including SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE). Read the warning about issues for people with AWE support enabled and more than 2GB of memory. |
| Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Release A | This is the download for MSDE 2000. |
| A Microsoft aticle about MSDE | "Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) for Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0: An Alternative to Jet for Building Desktop and Shared Solutions." |
| XMLFox, VB .NET Samples | XMLFox is a freeware graphical XML editor and validation tool. This link leads to several VB .NET examples. |
| Sworms | A remarkable game called Sworms (Super Worms) written mostly in VB 6 by Jonathan Bruneau. At least drop by and take a look at the gallery. |
| NPlot | A FREE .NET-enabled charting tool. |
| .NET API Viewer | A simple .NET API Viewer. I've seen a few bugs (for example, it displays constants as in &H123 for C# rather than the correct 0x123) but oveall quite useful and FREE. |
| MyTTS 3.0 | A simple TTS (Text-To-Speech) application written in MS Visual Basic (v6), using MS Speech Object Library. By frequent VB Helper contributor Dipak Auddy. |
| Project Analyzer | A static code analyzer that looks for trouble such as variables that are declared but not used, variables that are set but not later read, variables without declared data types, routines that are never called, etc. Also provides code metrics such as line count and estimated complexity. The FREE version can analyze up to 10 files. For example, if your project contains 12 files, you can exclude 2 and use the tool on the others. |
| Microsoft's Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition | A lightweight version of Visual Basic to get beginners, hobbyists, and VB 6 programmers hooked on VB .NET. A nice way to try VB .NET without buying the full product. |
| Microsoft's Express Products | Lighter-weight versions of Microsoft products including Visual Basic, C#, VC++, J#, and SQL Server. Also Visual Web Dev 2005 Express. |
| Bob Powell's "Beginners Guide to GDI+" | An on-going series of articles about using GDI+ (graphics in .NET). Also available: an RSS feed. |
| Microsoft Skills Assessment | Free online skills assessments for such topics as Windows XP, SQL Server 2000, supporting the end-user desktop, Office 2003, and Visual Studio .NET. |
| dotnetspider | .NET tutorials, articles, links, etc. There's a big C# tutorial (more than 30 chapters) but also quite a few VB .NET articles and links to articles. |
| Novick Software | Consulting, articles (mostly SQL Server), tips and tricks, etc. |
| Remote Course online VB training | Lots of online training course series including VB6 (this link), VB4, VB5, and VB .NET. There are eight courses in this series and for only $99.95 you have access to them for a year. |
| Experts Exchange, Visual Basic | A fantastic place to get questions answered. A must see! |
| A macro to make Regions | A CodeProject macro by Phillip Blanton to automate making code regions. |
| Sample chapter about objects | Chapter three (Understanding Objects and Collections) from the book Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 24 Hours Complete Starter Kit. It describes objects, properties, methods, object-based code, collections, and the object browser. |
| Downloads Machine | Beginner's tutorials and some Visual Basic programs, plus lots of freeware. Free registration required. |
| Auddy's Tools | Dipak Auddy has a few tools including an LCD digital clock with VB source code. |
| Visual Basic Directory | A (currently small) list of useful Visual Basic sites. |
| ConvertCSharp2VB | Copy and paste your C# code onto this Web form to see a VB .NET translation. |
| C# to VB.NET Translator | Copy and paste your C# code onto this Web form to see a VB .NET translation. |
| MOLiSoft VB Development | Examples, a place to submit your examples, and forums. |
| Visual Studio Code Samples | Visual Studio code sample downloads. Contains links to automation samples, 101 Visual Basic .NET samples, Code Swap (which currently only has 98 items), etc. |
| Visual Studio Extensibility Center | A Microsoft Web page that leads to information on customizing and extending the Visual Studio IDE. Mostly this means macros and add-ins, but also includes the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) Program SDK. |
| Code Fixer | Roger Gilchrist's VB6 Add-In helps make your code more readable. Detects unused variables, looks for obsolete language features such as IsMissing, etc. |
| MZ-Tools |
A freeware add-in for VB5, VB6, and VBA that adds several IDE features such as split or join lines, add or remove line numbers, convert to upper/lower case, add header comments, etc. |
| Tony's Examples | Just a couple of examples but the Web site password geneator is kind of clever. You enter the name of the Web site and your favorite password. It combines them to geneate a mangled password that you can use on the Web site. Later you can repeat the process to remember the mangled password. See the site for more details. |
| Trinivion Industries Forums | A bunch of forums including a bunch about programming and one about Visual Basic. That one looks reasonably active. |
| VBDepot | A new site featuring news, code samples, links, as well as listings of training providers, consultants, and component developers. |
| The VB Zone | Downloads, examples, DLLs, tutorials, and lots more. Definitely worth checking out. |
| VB-Programmerzone | A German vb-site with tools, source code, lots of tips and tricks and a big link library. |
| VBCool | A dozen or so examples, OCXs, and tutorials. |
| Start VB.Net | Lots of basic information about Visual Basic .NET. Includes some very useful material such as file handling basics, an introduction to XML, a bit on multi-threading, etc. A good resource. |
| SearchVB.com | A pretty big site with tips, discussions, newsletter, etc. |
| just4programmers.com | A small collection of code snippets for VB, ASP, PHP, etc. |
| Hands on Labs | More than 500 resources for Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, and Linux programming. |
| Martin's HomePage | VB 6 tips, examples, ActiveX controls, a newsletter, and more. |
| VB Accelerator type libraries | Type libraries that let you use libraries not normally available to VB 6 programs. The GDI+ article includes a link that lets you download GDI+ from Microsoft if you need it. |
| Visual Basic Tutorial | A VB tutorial. |
| Practical Visual Basic | Tips and tricks. |
| VBWM's Tips and Tricks | Tips and tricks. |
| Que: Using Visual Basic 6 | VB 6 tutorial. |
| Only4Gurus | Documentation for VB, VB .NET, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, etc. |
| Programmierwelt.de | A German site with information on Quick Basic, VB, and C++. |
| only4gurus | Lots of information about Microsoft products including .NET development. (Some pretty annoying flashing banner ads, though.) |
| excel-vba.com | Tips on Excel and VBA for accountants and data analysts. |
| 31 Tips for Faster .NET Applications | An article listing 31 Tips for Faster .NET Applications. |
| VB Microbolt | Tutorials and VB downloads. |
| Veign | A site with a few code examples and ActiveX controls. |
| Article: Choosing and Using MSDE 2000 as the Database Engine for Your Application | An MADN article that explains how to get started using MSDE for your database needs. |
| Progalex | An Italian site focusing on Windows API programming in VB. Articles, source, chat, etc. |
| CiRcLe | An Open Source IRC client written in Visual Basic. Source code is available. Demonstrates socket management and the IRC protocol. |
| (.NET Framework) Backwards Breaking Changes from .NET Framework version 1.0 to 1.1 | This page lists changes in .NET 1.1 that may break applications you've written in version 1.0. Right now, there are 87 changes listed. |
| JC Persistent Framework | A VB 6 framework to transparently manage transactions with a relational database. |
| Developer Fusion | Thousands of tutorials, code samples, reviews and a discussion forum for VB, VB.net and VBA programmers (and C++, C#, etc.). |
| ITtoolbox Visual Basic Knowledge Base | Links to tutorials, newsletters, books, etc. Lots of material. Two newsletters: one for VB developers and one for VB managers. |
| akTools | ActiveX controls written in VB 6 including reports, progess bar, simple skins, grid, etc. OCXs are free, source code and versions without ad labels cost extra. |
| Ascenvia.net | Tutorials and resources for developers including Visual Basic. |
| Vyas' SQL Server website for DBAs and developers | Code, articles, FAQs, etc. for DBAs and database developers. |
| merrioncomputing.com | Code, articles and downloads for advanced Visual basic developers, including EventVB (object oriented wrapper for the Win32 API). |
| VISUAL BASIC IN BELGIË | A small Belgian site in the Dutch language with half a dozen or so articles. |
| VBSoftware | A Spanish Visual Basic freeware site including tips, tricks, examples, ActiveX controls, etc. |
| Visual Basic 6.0 - The HomePage | A few tools and OCXs that may be handy, a forum, and some examples. |
| LinkmeUP2VB | A VB code exchange site. Currently has about 2 dozen downloads. A nice selection of beginner code and a few games. |
| Texas SQL Users | As the name implies, this is a SQL Server user's site. Instructions, downloadable code, performance tuning tips, book reviews, discussion group, newsletter, etc. Looks like a good resource for database programmers. |
| Voodoo VB | A VB game development site. Some tutorials on DirectX7 and DirectX8. Articles on RPGs, adventure games, 2D versus 3D, etc. |
| hMail | Free Visual Basic SMTP email component. Unfortunately the component is a compiled DLL and the home page is in Sweedish, though the readme file is in English. |
| Highlander's VB Web Page | Several useful utilities including fancier labels, plug-in help, HTML help support, string sorting, etc. |
| Visual Basic Resource | A couple dozen links to tutorials, examples, and other VB sites. |
| VB Software | About half a dozen free example programs that perform project management-related tasks: component management, registry cleaning, decompilers, etc. In Spanish and English. |
| www.crackinguniversity2000.it | A huge programming resource site. Much is in English but some is in Italian. A bit hard to find things. |
| ListSoftware Unicode articles | Three articles on Unicode:
- How to store and retrieve Unicode (ADO/Oracle/ASP)
- VB and Unicode (VB Forms 2.0)
- Unicode Searches using Oracle Stored Procedures (ADO/SP/Unicode)
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| OpenITx | Email-based discussion groups for IT subjects such as programming, project management, etc. |
| OpenITx Visual Basic Lists | This page holds the OpenITx Visual Basic lists. |
| vb overdrive | Code, examples, tutorials, and a discussion forum. |
| Get Started with the Package and Deployment Wizard | A tutorial on using the Package and Deployment Wizard |
| Pradeep's Home Page | Some useful COM+ and .NET links. |
| ApiViewer | (formerly API Toolshed). A free program similar to API Text Viewer containing lots of API declarations, constants, and type definitions. |
| VB CAD/Geo Tools | Tools, algorithms, source code, and some ActiveX controls for graphics. Some interesting algorithms: contouring, polygon triangulation, Direct3D, etc. |
| VB-2-The-Max | A big source code repository. |
| Planet Source Code | Another big source code repository. |
| Access 2002 and SQL Server Development Seminar | This seminar by noted Author Rick Dobson targets Access database developers and SQL Server DBAs who wish to take advantage of Access RAD techniques. |
| InformIT's Free Library | Literally hundreds of free books online! Some of the books that are most relevant to Visual Basic users include:
The library also includes lots of C++, Delphi, VB5, and other books. |
| Using DLLs and The Windows API | A lot of the more advanced VB Helper examples use API functions. This tutorial provides an introduction to using DLLs and API functions in your VB programs. |
| The Joy of VB | A lot of "Bio-Logic" applications and tools using some sophisticated algorithms from my book Ready-to-Run Visual Basic Algorithms |
| FreeMesh | A 3-D graphics site with some 3-dimensional meshes. The picture gallery shows a bunch of images created in Light FX, a Visual Basic program built by the Web Master. |
| Focus on Visual Basic | A small but growing collection of ActiveX controls and code. Includes an interesting DirectX 7 game called Haunted Maze. |
| Dutch's VB Code Library | A good selection of VB code. This site also sells some interesting shareware. |
| Ariad Software | Freeware ActiveX controls, code snippets, etc. Toolbars, status bars, panels, rotated text, and more. |
| Forbidden CH | A German Visual Basic site. |
| DevX .NET Resources | A whole bunch of .NET links. |
| Visual Basic Guide | Some small example executable programs mostly for beginners. |
| Guru's CyberHome | Question and Answers, Tips and Tricks, Sample Code. |
| Active VB | Lots of tips and tricks, a forum, tutorials, etc. in German. |
| About Visual Basic | More tips and tricks, tutorials, etc. in German. |
| Visual Basic | A Hungarian VB site. |
| VBUG | Visual Basic User Group UK. An online magazine, discussion forum, etc. Now focusing on Visual Studio.NET. |
| ZAP Software | A VB6 and Delphi site. Right now it has a hypertext component and a program called AutoFiler that allows you to rename multiple files. |
| www.programmierung2000.de | A German site with information for C/C++, Visual Basic, and JavaScript. About a dozen Visual Basic articles. |
| SmartAddins.com | A small site for posting AddIns you can add to your development environment. Right now it only has one, a code snippet manager. Go to the site and contribute or suggest others. |
| Visual Basic FAQ | An excellent selection of articles on all sorts of VB topics. If you haven't looked here, you should do so. |
| Guru4vedi | A small site with about a dozen VB-related topics. |
| Numerical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology | VB routines for statistical functions. They deal with genetics and medicine but it could be useful if you have other statistical needs. Random numbers with different distributions, probability distribution simulations with frequency histograms, plotting subroutines, etc. |
| VB Planet | A very nicely designed site that doesn't have a lot of content yet. Drop by and submit some. |
| vbscuola.it | Italian site intended for teachers and schools using Visual Basic. Includes news, software for free download, tutorials (mostly beginner), etc. |
| Dr.X Visual Basic Source | Lots of examples taken from other sites (including VB Helper) grouped in meaningful categories. |
| VBTrainer.com | Samples and tutorials, mostly about data objects (DataEnvironment, DataGrid, etc). |
| VB6 SP4 | Click here for the English version of the Visual Basic part of Visual Basic 6 Service Pack 4. Click here for information on the entire service pack. |
| PlatformVB | A couple advanced tricks for ComboBoxes and Grids. More importantly, some useful information on dial-up networking and RAS. |
| ProgrammingMSAccess.com | Access and SQL server tutorials, FAQs, etc. by author and conference speaker Rick Dobson. |
| Andy's Visual Basic Site | A fair number of tutorials and samples. |
| CodeSites.com | A collection of development-related links. Click here for the Visual Basic related links. |
| The Joy of VB | Intermediate and advanced prorgams covering some very interesting topics: chaos, fractals, genetic algorithms, etc. |
| LocoSoft's Home Page | A Spanish site including ActiveX controls, tips, examples, some tutorials, etc. |
| VB Town | Several ActiveX controls, a good assortment of tips and tricks, etc. Worth a visit! |
| Doom3d | A three-dimensional Doom-like game written in Visual Basic using Direct3D and DirectSound. |
| Deja Computing | A few examples, games, some shortest path stuff, etc. |
| The VB Zone | Several beginner's tutorials, plus some game programming information including DirectX 7 tank battle game. |
| Visual Basic Only | A Visual Basic links site. |
| Neil Fraser's Parallel Port Monitor | The VB program available here lets you monitor and modify parallel port settings. |
| AbstractVB | Redesigned and greatly expanded. This has grown into a nice collection of examples and tutorials. |
| Migrating from DAO to ADO, Using ADO with the Jet Provider | As the title indicates, it talks about how to migrate from the older DAO to ADO. If you are still using DAO, you really should take a look at this. |
| Moreno Sirri VB Site | An Italian Visual Basic site (I'm not qualified to say much about non-English sites). |
| Mundo Visual - Visual Basic | A Spanish Visual Basic site (I'm still not qualified to say much about non-English sites). |
| VB World | A small but nice collection of tutorials, mostly at the beginng and intermediate level. |
| Jason's VB Page | A new site with a few example programs, several games. |
| Home of Dr Zed Productions | A small site containing some good VB and HTML examples. |
| MVP.org | A collection of sites by extremely talented programmers who have all sorts of advanced code for you to look at. This is a "must see." |
| Brad Martinez's MVP page | Lots of great advanced examples. Another "must see." |
| FAST.Software Home Page | A bunch of FREEWARE ActiveX Controls & OLE classes to make programming easier. |
| A Visual Basic Tip | A handful of advanced tips. |
| Windows CE Home Page | Microsoft's Windows CE home page. |
| Rotten Fruitcake Software | Some home grown games in progress including Bob's Problem, a game similar to Breakout. Click here to see an animated GIF of the game in action. |
| The Visual Basic Learning Center | Several code snippets for manipulating different controls and a chat area. |
| A1VBCode | A fairly extensive assortment of examples and code snippets. |
| VBShop | Visual Basic tips, articles, and shareware. |
| MSDN Online Code Center | A Microsoft site containing code samples and example programs. |
| MSDN Online Bug Center | A Microsoft site containing bug-related information. |
| Visual Basic 7 | Microsoft's sneak preview of what will be in Visual Basic 7. |
| Programming Links | A new links site. Go add your link. |
| Visual Basic Resource Center | A new site that has yet to add content. |
| VB Web | A bunch of beginner and intermediate tutorials. For example, instructions on how to use ComboBoxes, RichTextBoxes, etc. |
| Visual Basic Galaxy | An Italian site with lots of material. |
| Asmodeus - Multiplayer RPG | A multi-player role-playing game written in VB. Source code available for $20. |
| VB by JC | Intermediate and advanced stuff, much of it API examples. |
| Black Belt Visual Basic | Some good step-by-step examples of advanced techniques (ADO, API, AppenbdChunk and GetChunk, etc.). This site also answers questions. |
| Willy's Freeware | Some freeware utilities written in Visual Basic. Source code is available on request. |
| Black Belt Visual Basic | Several detailed articles about using advanced features (AppendChunk, SendMessage, threads, etc). |
| Erix World of Visual Basic | A handfull of tips and examples, including one that validates credit card numbers. I've long wondered how that works. |
| Alexandria VB Search Engines | Search engines for: Microsoft Knowledge Base, MSDN Lilbrary, Planet Source Code, and a couple others. |
| Active Aggressive | Resources for object-oriented component development in Visual Basic. |
| VB Frood | A German Visual Basic site including a bunch of unique examples. |
| Slice and Dice | A template-based programming tool to increase programmer productivity. Download an evaluations copy at the Web site. |
| bugsite's Visual Basic page | A couple dozen tips, tricks, and examples. |
| vbip.com - Visual Basic Internet Programming | Tutorials, source code, ActiveX components, etc. for Visual Basic Internet programmers. |
| Planet Source Code | Gobs of VB code (also Java, C, and C++) covering too many topics to list them all. |
| Lucky's VB Gaming Site | Some tutorials, DirectX information, and obviously VB game information. |
| VB-Database | Articles, downloads including some WinSock stuff, etc. |
| The Programmer's Guild | A smallish site with several tutorials and examples you can download. |
| Peter's Programmers Heaven | A site with some games written in Visual Basic using DirectX 7. |
| Artículo de Visual Basic 5.0 | A Visual Basic course in Spanish. |
| Microsoft's DirectX site | DirectX lets you add extremely higher performance graphics to your Visual Basic applications. |
| Freeskills.com | A bunch of FREE training guides. Go here for the Visual Basic course list. |
| Visual Basic Programming Site | Lots of information on different kinds of controls (how to use CommandButtons, Labels, etc.) |
| The KPD-Homepage | A great site that's fast, friendly, and full of useful code examples. |
| FreeVBCode.com | A couple hundred code samples demonstrating beginner, intermediate, and advanced techniques. An excellent resource! |
| gkmtech.com | Information on programming languages (Visual Basic, Java, C++, ...) and jobs. |
| Constructors in VB | A paper about "constructors" in Visual Basic. If you don't know what these are, read this paper. |
| Windows API Guide | An extensive site describing Windows API functions and giving examples using them in Visual Basic. |
| The VB Forum | A small site with high quality tips, tricks, and shareware/freeware. |
| Rational Brains Home Page | A couple controls you can add to your projects. |
| MatrixVB | A COM library of matrix math functions for Visual Basic. More than 600 functions including FFT, polynomial solving and fitting, etc. |
| TILISOFT Developer Resources | VB, VBA, VB Script, Java, JavaScript, HTML, etc. |
| Developer's Domain | Code samples and articles about Visual Basic, ASP, and Web scripting. |
| The Agent LaunchPad | A site about using agents in VB (agents are those little characters that do things like help in the latest Office products. Clippy, Merlin, etc.). |
| Visual Basic Bookmark | A big list of resource links for VB, other languages, Web development, etc. |
| Component Source | More than 1500 programming tools and utilities. |
| Programmers Heaven | Source code, utilities, and code samples for Visual Basic, Java, C++, Linux, and lots more. Sections on graphics, hardware, etc. |
| Ray's Visual Basic Land | A bunch of downloads demonstrating useful techniques. |
| Add to Your Programming Knowledge | Tips, tutorials, downloads, and more. |
| Microsoft's ActiveX Script control | A free product that adds a scripting engine to your programs. |
| ActiveSkin | A shareware product that lets you create all sorts of interestingly shaped forms. |
| De Stefano Visual Basic | A nice Italian Visual Basic site. |
| The Urthman’s Visual Basic Tool Shed! | Several shareware and freeware development tools that may be useful. Registered and unregistered versions. |
| Mega VB Source Code | Code samples, downloads, ActiveX controls. |
| Mundo Visual - VisualBasic | A Spanish Visual Basic site containing source code, ActiveX, DirectX, tutorials, and more. |
| el Guille | Another large Spanish Visual Basic site. |
| Visual Basic Bug List | A large bug list including many from the Packaging and Deployment Wizard. Some solutions to bugs. |
| Visual Basic Tower of Magic | A smallish site with some useful examples and tutorials, and a fantasy theme. |
| Microsoft's Year 2000 Portal Page | A site for year 2000 information and Microsoft software updates. |
| zBasics | Games, tips & tricks, and some reasonably advanced examples. |
| Cyberia | A site with some interesting downloads including a periodic table, calculator, 10-finger typing trainer, and a Yahtzee game. |
| Chuck Easttom's VB World | This site started as a beginner's site but has expanded considerably. |
| OfficeVBA.com | A Microsoff Office site from the Informant communications group. |
| SocketWrench | A freeware tool for using sockets. |
| Slice and Dice | A product for building applications using templates. Free evaluation copies. |
| VB Thriller | Downloads and a bunch of tips in an easy to find format. |
| Progar.com | Tutorials, examples, etc. A relatively rare FAQ on DirectX for Visual Basic. |
| CodeGuru VB | Lots of example code, discussion, etc. |
| Allexperts Visual Basic Q&A | Volunteer experts answer VB questions. Other sections in the site answer all sorts of other questions. |
| vbAccelerator | An excellent collection of advanced tips, tricks, controls, and projects including a control that lets you display popup menus with icons and text effortlessly. This site is a MUST SEE! |
| Andrea VB Programming and Free Downloads | A large collection of advanced code snippets including printer routines (check number of jobs on a specific printer, justify text, etc.), file tips, registry code, and much more. |
| Visual Basic Source Code | Several useful applications such as a Winsock file transfer toolkit and an HTML editor. |
| Designer Controls | Several useful controls you can buy. |
| Professor Smiley's Visual Basic Website | Interesting projects and exercises, links, and information about education. |
| STFB Inc. | A commercial Visual Basic accounting system product. |
| VB Library | Lots of useful example projects. |
| Paul Duffield's Visual Basic Resources | Example projects, ActiveX controls, shareware and freeware. |
| Australian Visual Basic User Group | The usual user's group stuff. Downloads, newsletters, etc. A good place to become an active member. |
| The Visual Basic Gold Site | About a dozen examples and a printing shareware control. |
| Visual Basic Source | VB programming tips, using Access with VB, Knowledge Base, Q & A, some examples. |
| Red-Leif International | Tips, examples, naming conventions, ... |
| Swynk.com | A large list of free components and other stuff available around the net. Also examples, ASP, SQL Server, ADO, etc. |
| VB Place | A German site with several dozen interesting examples. |
| VB Net | Excellent VB example code including lots of API stuff. |
| A Programming Resource Megasite | Source code and stuff for a huge number of languages. Not a huge amount of VB stuff yet, but some is quite good. |
| Camonet | Tips, tricks, downloads, etc. |
| VB Tips & Tricks | As you might guess from the name, lots of tips and tricks. |
| Yet Another Programming Site | A handful of Visual Basic downloads plus some VBScript and JavaScript. |
| Extreme VB | Another site with code samples, a few tutorials, etc. |
| VBing | A Visual Basic site in German and English. |
| Smithvoice VBFun | A very small site thath some advice well worth reading. |
| Visual Basic Emporium | Tips and sample code. Not a huge amount, but some interesting stuff I have not seen elsewhere. |
| VB-World | Sample projects, discussion group, and a few book reviews. |
| Visual Basic 911 | Sample projects and tips, mostly for beginners. |
| Active Data Corporation | Visual Basic consulting. Database development, client/server, etc. |
| Active PG DocProp | A component that displays summary information for OLE2 documents like right mouse does in Windows Explorer. |
| VB/CE | Microsoft's page that lists the differences between VB and VB for CE. |
| Databits Developer Solutions by Cathryn | Hundreds of links to useful information, code, article, etc. |
| Online Programming Tutorial | Lots of tutorials, online code, etc. |
| SmartHTML | An Add-In that converts Visual Basic source code into HTML code. |
| VBShield | VBShield modifies your program so it is harder to decompile. I don't know how this works so I cannot endorse it, but I know this is an issue of concern for a lot of people. If you have experience with this product, let me know if you like it. |
| TANSTAAFL Software | Some useful discussion groups. A good section on creating and using help files. |
| Knowledge Base Index | A very nice index for the Knowledge Base. You have got to check this out! |
| Jobs4IT.com | Jobs for information technology professionals. Free search for jobs. |
| Visual Basic Project Management Journal | A unique site dedicated to project management issues. Book reviews, discussions, and articles about controlling Visual Basic development. |
| Duek Web Page | A good selection of samples, tip, and tricks. I particularly like the example that associates a file extension with a program. |
| Tune It! ocx | An OCX that gives you lots of information about Windows 95/98 systems. |
| Visual Basic Open Vault | Source code, programs, and a new Visual Basic discussion group. |
| Andy's Visual Basic Page | Visual Basic source code, sample applications, etc. |
| WOTH | Commercial program that converts Word documents into help files. |
| VB Debug Workshop | Commercial product that adds error handling to VB programs. |
| GravityBox Software | 10 or so ActiveX controls for sale. Download trial versions. |
| Tower Production's Visual Basic Site | Jame Rushing's Visual Basic Web site. |
| Visual Basic Web Directory | Gobs of links to useful Visual Basic resources. |
| www.vbcode.com | A huge number of code snippets. If you like VB Helper, you will probably like this site. Check it out! |
| CPB-VB Design Studio | Some editor and game programs. |
| Yet another VB site | Source code, How-to's, links. |
| DiP's VB World | Nice site with lots of downloads, tutorials, etc. |
| Visual Basic Thunder | A great site with a fair bit of interesting code. |
| Gelowitz Visual Basic Code Source | A growing collection of downloads and sample source code. |
| The Coding Box | A pretty nice assortment of source code, API examples, etc. |
| Bjerkly VB-Centre | A site with some links and a couple examples. It should grow in the future. |
| Programmerz.com | This site contains free source code. They are trying to build a large library of contributed software in all programming languages. They offer free Web hosting and email to those who contribute. |
| The Source | Code samples, suggestions, downloads, etc. Some good advanced stuff including freeware message hook controls, a VB4/16 disassembler, VB3 disassembler, etc. |
| Kurtz's Computer Software Development Library | A new site dedicated to the design and development process. Different from the other programming sites you'll find. |
| DJ's Computer Labs | Free VB6 ActiveX controls. |
| Vision Factory Multimedia | Several inexpensive ActiveX controls such as a round button and CD writing code. These are not amazingly complex controls, but they are free for private use and cheap for commercial use. |
| VB5 Fun | A couple really useful tricks such as exporting data for other databases and making an MRU list. |
| Visual Basic Made Easy | A small site that currently has introductory material. |
| Nod Programming | Programming, Art, Help Files, Source Code, Ideas. "We at Nod Programming, Inc. program for the love of our art, the art of programming." |
| Visual Basic Bakery | Tips, tricks, some simple tutorials, a few games, some ActiveX controls,... a bit of everything. |
| Henrik Gütle's Home Page | A German site with interesting graphics but not a lot of content yet. |
| Kosit's Home Page | A Thai Web site. |
| Shay's Visual Basic Corner | A fair bit of interesting material including a Top-Ten List of Programming Sins. A bit hard to navigate, though. |
| Visual Basic Open Vault | Mostly beginner's tutorials. Some nice overviews of certain kinds of functions (for example, I/O). |
| Developers.Net | A huge job search site. If you're looking for a job, don't miss this one. |
| Visual Basic Newswire | A remarkable source for Visual Basic news. Daily news and a weekly newsletter. |
| Planetwide Software | Commercial VB 5 components and ActiveX controls. Products include an API viewer, color selector, calendar, exploding menu control, and enhanced TextBox. |
| GD's Domain | Download small samples. Lots of intermediate and advanced tips including API stuff. |
| Visual Basic Guide Site | at the Mining Co. Tips, tricks, example code, etc. You should take a look at this site. |
| Kavalants' Homepage | Download the source code for a simple text editor. |
| Zarr's VB Web Site | A large site with lots of information. Source code, news, favorite Knowledge Base articles, and more. |
| VB Area | Lots of downloads, tips, and advice. Well worth a look! |
| Stars VB Page | Downloads, tutorials, etc. |
| Beyond The Basics Of Visual Basic | Advanced downloads. A few book recommendations. Career information. |
| JP & ML's Visual Basic and Corel Draw Place | Q & A, Tutorials, Downloads, etc. for VB and Corel Draw. Small but promising. |
| The Visual Basic Cell | Lots of examples, source code downloads, tutorials, etc. |
| The New VB Palace | A decent FAQ, source code, DLLs, etc. |
| VB Sources and OCX Shareware | Lots of shareware downloads: Print preview OCX, gradient titlebars, enumerate networks, etc. |
| vbhelp.NET | Mostly beginner's tutorials. A fair amount of material. |
| One-Stop SourceShop | A collection of code that noted author Karl E. Peterson has written over the years. A great source for production-quality code. |
| Vladmir's ON-LINE Crib | A small site with a few links, help, downloads, etc. Vladmir promises this will grow soon. (May be down temporarily for a while.) |
| BoBoSoft | A small site with a few links and stuff. (May be down temporarily for a while.) |
| Common Controls Replacement Project | A project that is trying to provide more powerful free replacements for Microsoft's Common Controls and Common Dialogs. Lots of free downloads. |
| John Stalcup's Web site | Much improved navigation and download for a chat application, a drawing application, and some other stuff. |
| ShrinkWrap VB | A small site with free code for game, ActiveX, and multimedia programmers. |
| Win32 Programming Realm | Tips & tricks, sample code, and tutorials on the API and DirectX. |
| Programación Visual Basic | Fernando Hunth's site in English and Spanish. |
| Programmers Plus | Not much so far except plenty of promise. Drop by and see if you can contribute something. |
| Somser BBS | Freeware, tips, ActiveX controls, etc. in Spanish. |
| Visual Basic Web Magazine | |
| Visual Basic Game and Application Development | A small site with lots of promise. Hopefully this will turn into a useful game site. |
| Compu-Tel Visual Basic Projects | This site contains a nice step-by-step introduction for beginners as well as other material. |
| Australian Visual Developers Forum | A very nice bimonthly ezine with information on Visual Basic, Delphi, and other visual topics. |
| SFC Software Homepage by Patrick Healey | A little bit of everything: freeware, tips, links, etc. |
| Theodore's Visual Basic Site | |
| Jelsoft VB-World | |
| VBWeb 98 | by Craig Parsons. |
| Nerd World programming page | |
| Online Visual Basic training | |
| vbDomain | The new name for the old VB Garbage site. |
| Windows User Interface Design Guide | |
| Microsoft VB Owners area | Sample code and updates. |
| VBA Powertools | Add-ins (like a popup thesaurus) you can add to Office applications (Word, Excel, etc.). |
| The A B C page | Book recommendations (lots of Access, only a few VB right now). |
| Richard Grier's home page | Information about Dick's book on serial communications. |
| VBHelp | |
| All Things to All People Visual Programming Page | |
| Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page | |
| Gary Beene's Visual Basic World | |
| Cool VB | |
| Chris & Tim's RAD Web Site | |
| Ask the VB Pro | |
| Visual Basic Explorer | Aimed at VB novices. |
| Visual Basic On Line User Group | |
| Microsoft's Visual Basic Home page | |
| Differences in Visual Basic versions | |
| Microsoft's Visual Basic Tips | |
| The Phil Weber Home Page | A few old but interesting tips and tricks. |
| Visual Basic Groep | Dutch VB user's group (English available). |
| Resources for WinHelp Authors | Help authoring links and information. |
| Matt Hart's VB pages | Examples for VB3, VB4, and VB5. |
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