Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

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The Visual Basic 6 language uses file handlers to write data to a CSV file, which is a text file that separates values using the comma character. The CSV file format lets you export and import data ...

Explore the various benefits of the Collection object in VB6 Your email has been sent VB6 makes use of collections in many ways, such as keeping track of controls on a form and system printers. Learn ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

The "My Documents" folder path contains a variable username component and changes from one user to another. It is possible to write a code in VBA or VB6 to access the "My Documents" folder regardless ...

The end is near! ... That is, if you're a Visual Basic (VB) 6.0 developer. On April 8, Microsoft will cease its support of the VB6 IDE. This shouldn't be news, of course. Microsoft has been warning ...

A VB6 or (Visual Basic 6) program can be used to find RGB values of a color. Some knowledge of programming concepts and languages such as Visual Basic is required to write a program code in VB6. Basic ...

At work I've been called upon to be a VB6 programmer (I have no prior MS programming experience).<BR><BR>So, I've got Visual Studio 6, and I'm chugging along and things are going ok, except that I can ...