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If your sick of typing in the same old menus over and over then try this out. Extracts menu data from VB Forms and Usercontrols and allows inserting these menus into other VB Forms/Usercontrols or saving as a template for later use. Whilst its a useful little programming tool in itself, it was written to demonstrate string parsing and filetype creation and association including, Explorer context menus.

A practical demonstration of using classes to optimise your applications. Correctly written classes make your code re-usable, faster, more reliable and memory efficient. They also speed devolopment time, make debugging easier and can be placed in DLL's making them accessable from multiple applications simultaneously As time goes by they become even better because each time you use the same class in different apps, any bugs that do show up get removed for future apps as well.

A reasonably complete clone of Regedit.exe with a few added extras. All coders should be familiar with the layout and usage of the Registry If you're not then here it is on a plate !

A scientific calculator. Written as Usercontrol, very lightweight, very easy to call. Demonstrates trigonometrical and logarithmic functions, each with just a line or 2 of code. Great to learn from.

Disable *.vbw files from running when you click on a VB6 Project file(*.vbp or *.vbg) in Explorer. Simple registry function to avoid malicious vbw files activating. No timers, no overhead, run once and your protected.

Handling File Paths. The VB programmer should try to use the API wherever possible. It is usually faster and more memory efficient than most VB methods. We should also make use of .RES files rather than hard coding to reduce the amount of memory consumed by our applications. This little demo attempts to illustrate these concepts in the simplest possible way.

File Association can be tricky and there are some rather blunt instruments being applied in some examples of Association both on this site and elsewhere on the web. This demo shows how to Associate your App to a file extension and safely return Association to the previously Associated program if desired. Lots of comments, easy to call, with the absolute minimum of code required to do the job. Prompted by more than one question in the Discussion Forum.

This demo shows some of the capabilities of editing RichTextBox tags to achieve very fast global formatting. Great for Syntax Highlighting etc.

This demo shows in the simplest possible code, the basics of image editing. It is intended for the novice but others may find it useful in optimising or simplifying their code. Whilst it is in no way a full blown editor, it may provide a basis from which to learn. If you want an example of a more advanced image editor I suggest you look at "Bobo Image Workshop" which is found at: http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=21482&lngWId=1

Need to test installs on different operating systems? Need a new operating system fast? Infected by virus?...Read this - it may help.

Here is the third part of my Web Browser Tricks This time as a Web Browser(nearly). What's here ? - a nearly exact clone of Internet Explorer's Favorites menu, autocomplete Address combo, menu's enabled/disabled by the Webbrowser, text resizing including identification of current size, progress bar in the Statusbar, plus all the standard WebBrowser stuff.

I keep reading requests for RichtextBox code on PSC so I decided to upload one of my templates with a few added features. Nothing that special here really - basic RichtextBox functioality. The RichtextBox is pretty good at what it does though ! This example demonstrates : Find and Replace, Infinite Undo/Redo, Using .tmp files, HighLighting selected words, Inserting Images, Inserting text at a set location with different Fonts, Common Editing Functions, Shrinking a path to a desired length, Creating your own light-weight Wizard. This is not meant to be a complete application merely a demonstation of some techniques. All error messages and bugs are provided entirely free of charge. Feel free to use any of the code or errors as you wish - MS wrote the control - I've just shown how you might use it. It's capable of more than I've shown here.

This Example Application Demonstates : Enable/Disable Forward and back Buttons, Standard Navigation Buttons, Cut/Copy/Paste/SelectAll edit functions, Auto-Complete Address Box, Saving and Loading MRUs, Avoiding duplicates in Combo/List boxes, The 'about:' Navigation method, Opening and Saving Web Pages, Using Explorers' Find File or Folder Dialog, Finding text on current page, Sizing text on Web pages, Showing a progress guage, Showing Status text, Creating HTML pages at runtime. If I get some interest via the way of votes I'll put up some more

Search a directory for files containing a specified string and return a list of such files. Once again, I've uploaded this in response to a quetion posted in the Discussion Forum.

Shows how to add items to a listview and then save those items to either an INI file or to Registry. Once saved you can then load the data back into the listview.

Another addition to my WebBrowser tricks. This one shows how to access SHDOCVW.dll so that with one line of code you can 1.Bring up Internet Explorers' Add to Favorites Dialog 2.Convert Netscape Bookmarks to Favorites 3.Convert Favorites to a Netscape Bookmark file. 4.Download files without IE throwing up its' dialog. Also I threw a couple of simple Windows based procedures... 1.Show Windows File Property Dialog 2.Show Windows Find file Dialog 3.A method of hiding the Cursor system wide.

This is in response to a 'Request for Code' in the discussion forum. It's similar to lots of other submissions of address book style apps. It shows how to create and access a database without any data controls - just by referencing 'Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library'. Purely an introduction to databases - nothing more. A simple address book in 160 lines of code, easily expanded, with lots of comments to guide a beginner through the code.

This little App will allow you to edit or create menus in VB6 Forms. It removes the limitations of the number of nested submenus allowable in the VB6 menu editor on which it is based. New forms can be created with menus in place. It can be used to extract menu structures from one form and place it in another. You can save menu structures as templates for later use. It has only been tested in VB6. Use it as you would the Menu Editor in VB6 with the exception of the Open/Save operations. As with all my submissions, bugs and errors are provided completely free of charge.

Updated version - removed many bugs and errors. Thanks for the feedback and interest shown by all those who emailed me. It helped greatly. This little App will allow you to edit or create menus in VB6 Forms. It removes the limitations of the number of nested submenus allowable in the VB6 menu editor on which it is based. New forms can be created with menus in place. It can be used to extract menu structures from one form and place it in another. You can save menu structures as templates for later use. It has only been tested in VB6. Use it as you would the Menu Editor in VB6 with the exception of the Open/Save operations. As with all my submissions, bugs and errors are provided completely free of charge.

In response to requests for more samples here is Volume 2. This collection includes the use of scrollbars, listboxes and the treeview. Move listitems up or down in a listbox, remove duplicates etc. The treeview example demonstrates a fully functioning 'Favorites bar' for a Web browser application using Internet explorers favorites - add links, add new folders, rename, delete etc. Also included is a KeyCode giver, a picture resizer, and just for fun a random mousemover. Code for each function appear in a textbox ready to copy into your project. I hope this is of some help to people beginning VB. Good luck.