Visual Bsic Example

Tutorials

These tutorials contain step by step graphical guides to several visual basic programming concepts and tools. Note that they are not necessarily in progressive order!

Tutorial	Description	Authors
# 1	Introduction to Visual Basic Part 1 A very basic demonstration and example of some controls and events A simple example of how to program a listbox  MSDN: what it is, how to get at it MSDN sample programs online: how to get at'em	Mike Rounding James Tam
# 2	Introduction to Visual Basic Part 2. Database example using the Data control Saul's Sketchpad demo Saul's Advanced Sketchpad demo	Mike Rounding James Tam Saul Greenberg
# 3	Accessing databases using the ADO Data Control	Mike Rounding James Tam
# 4	Accessing databases using the Data Environment control	Mike Rounding James Tam
# 5	Creating a simple HelloWorld ActiveX control in Visual Basic	Saul Greenberg
# 6	How to register your ActiveX Controls on the Computer Science machines	Mike Rounding
# 7	Building a Ticker ActiveX Control with the ActiveX Control Wizard	Mike Rounding Rod Stephens
# 8	Building a Transparent ActiveX Control that lets you click on a non-rectangular image	Mike Rounding Shaun Kaasten
# 9	Dynamic queries and databases: simple example on how you can use sliders  to build a query to a database	Mike Rounding
# 10	The "Bitton" control, beginning guide to building ActiveX controls a few different ways along with some ActiveX explanation	Mike Rounding
# 11	This program demonstrates dragging and dropping from explorer and between forms and also includes a cool control moving code module.	Mike Rounding Saul Greenberg
# 12	This is a step-by-step tutorial for how to integrate Macromedia Flash into your VB applications. Complete with instructions on how to pass information back and forth and also how to remotely invoke Flash methods right in VB!	Mike Hornby-Smith

Programs

Project	Description	Authors
vbHelloWorld	A simple hello world program that illustrates a basic VB program as well as the command button and timer control.	Saul Greenberg
FirstProject	We use this nonsense program as a first VB exercise for students to do.   The left figure shows when it looks like when the program is executed, while the right shows what happens after the user has clicked the button 3 times and selected the checkbox, and moved the mouse over the form. Try to program this yourself. It uses a command (or button), a label, and a checkbox.	James Tam
vbImages	These two vb Projects illustrates two ways to cycle through images stored in a local directory. Each demonstrates different controls for accessing files, while both show a control for displaying images.	Saul Greenberg
vbMarquee	A marquee (an automatically scrolling text region) is used to illustrate a Timer, a status bar and a checkbox control, and simple graphical repositioning,	Saul Greenberg
vbMoveList	An example of how to use listboxes (as well as how to put images into buttons). This example lets you move items between lists.	Rod Stephens, modified by Saul Greenberg
vbPlaysound	Illustrates how to play a wave file in Visual Basic. It works by declaring a function to the WIN32 API sndPlaySound . Don't be intimidated: its two lines of code!	Saul Greenberg
vbSketchpads	Illustrates two simple sketchpads. The first one is only about 6 lines of code, and just illustrates some very basic graphics and event handling. The second shows how one can dynamically create controls at run time (the items on the palette), how controls can be positioned at runtime, and how controls can be resized when the window is resized. Its a longer program, but well worth going through to see how these features work. See Tutorial 2 for step by step instructions for how these programs work.	Saul Greenberg
vbDrawpad	A simple object-oriented drawing editor that allows a user to create, move and erase squares. You can easily extend this to include different graphical classes e.g., circles, lines, etc., or to any interactive graphics. The program illustrates how to do simple object-based interactive graphics in VB how to use a collection how to use a class	Saul Greenberg
vbDynamicQueries	This program is similar to the drawing editor above, but used for completely different purposes. It illustrates how to do dynamic queries on city attributes, where cities on a map are filtered immediately as a person moves a slider or checks a checkbox. While the example is simple, the possibilities of how you can enhance it are endless. Click on the image to view it in full size.	Saul Greenberg
vbTableLens	Illustrates how to create a very simple table lens that toggles cells between graphical and textual views. Click on the image to view it in full size.	Rod Stephens
vbDragPicture	Illustrates how to Bitblit a picture on another picture, and how to drag it around.	Rod Stephens
vbDragTreeNode	Illustrates how to use the Tree control and how to drag items around different parts of the tree	Rod Stephens
vbMoveControls	An example application that lets a user interactively move different kinds of controls on a display.  Illustrates interactive graphics.	Saul Greenberg
vbclassexample	Illustrates how to create a simple class that raises events	Saul Greenberg
vbFlexdata-example	Illustrates a database with the flex control. The database just has two fields: name and phone. This example lets you add and remove records. To make the grid sorted, we set the data control's record source property to the SQL statment: Select * from friends order by FirstName. The record is just added to the end of the file, but the flex grid shows it sorted. See also Tutorial 3 and Tutorial 4 for other ways to access databases.	Shaun Kaasten
vbShapedControls	Illustrates how you can clip the shape of a control or form to a variety of regions.	Shaun Kaasten

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ActiveX Controls

Project	Description	Author
HelloWorld	A tutorial and example project that shows you how to build a minimalist VB ActiveX Control Component. It just contains a label saying "Hello World" and has no code attached to it. However, it does have a toolbox control icon. Includes an example program.	Saul Greenberg
TickerTape	A tutorial and example project that shows you how to build a TickerTape control out of a label. It also illustrates the ActiveX Control Wizard.	Mike Rounding Rod Stephens
ElusiveProfessor	A VB ActiveX Control that creates a 'new' type of button (actually a standard but augmented command button) that moves away from the person who is trying to click it. Includes an example program. The design was based upon a class project where students had to design a button that reflected their personality.	Saul Greenberg
FollowMe	This program creates a command button that will follow the mouse around. This simple but very useful example illustrates using the Extender object in a VB UserControl to access outside properties and methods the use of calls from the Win32 API for finding mouse cursor coordinates scaling those coordinates in terms of a container object (be it a form or another control container)	Michael Rounding
vbRangeSlider	Illustrates a very crude range slider written in ActiveX. I include it to show you how you can do interactive graphics (well, at least some simple stuff),  how you can make an active x control that you can include in a project.  It is limited. It does not scale its size, and I did not spend any time doing all the things that one normally does to package up a control. This is really just a quick hack. Feel free to improve it and pass it on to the class. To use: Unzip the file into a directory. Check out the test program in a sub directory that I included. In your own project, you can include the range slider by going into  project/components and then selecting Browse. Navigate to the OCX file that will be in the unzipped directory and select it. You will see a new control that you can select.	Saul Greenberg
PictureClip	A tutorial program that shows you how to use the PictureClip component for creating animations.	Dave Miller, 581 student
ShowNeighbours	An activeX control plus exe that shows you how to find the other controls in a form from inside an ActiveX control. Saul Greenberg used this example to build a Mr. Popularity button, where all the other controls on the form gravitate towards a Mr Popularity ActiveX button.	Chris Bradley, 581 student
xparent.zip	Illustrates how you can build a transparent ActiveX Control that lets you detect clicks on a non-rectangular image (in the figure on the right these would be the red letters). See Tutorial 8.	Mike Rounding, Shaun Kaasten
tranparent.zip	Similar to xparent.zip, except this version follows your mouse wherever it goes around the screen - very fun.	Mike Rounding,
MovingControl.zip	This example includes a user control that will move itself towards any other control. This example illustrates some custom events and properties in a user control, and shows how to do do simple control animation with a timer.	Mike Rounding

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Third Party Examples

We've found these on the web or in books, and they are too good not to include

Project (as zip or .bas)	Description	Author
animation	Bitmap Animation: Shows how to build a simple bitmap animation.	Rod Stephens
Transparent.zip	Transparency: A tool library to do transparency, including transparent controls.	Doug Gaede
vbRangeTool.zip	An ActiveX control that implements a range slider. Looks pretty good!	Author unknown
VB-ScreenCapture.BAS	Capturing bitmaps: A BAS library for capturing various portions of a screen.	Microsoft website

Table of Contents
Section	Description
AOL and AIM Add-ons	Examples relating to programming AOL or AIM add-ons.
Fonts, Files, and Databases	Examples dealing with fonts, files or databases.
Games	Examples on games or things game related.
Images	Examples dealing with images or the manipulation of them.
Internet	Examples that have to do with the Internet.
Menus	Examples on dealing with menus.
Special Effects	Special effect examples.
Window Manipulating	Examples dealing with the manipulation of windows.
Miscellaneous	Examples that don't fit any where else.

AOL and AIM Add-on Examples
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Add Room To List (AOL6 and below)	myst	Add the memebers of an aol chat room to a list.	Download
AIM PW Decrypter	beerbaron	Shows how to decrypt aim passwords. [written in 2001]	Download
AIM Screenname And PW Extract	ChiChis	This code demonstrates how to extract AIM screennames from the registry and the decrypt the password. [written in 2000]	Download
AOL Chat Room Hook Example	Craig Jasper, Jr.	Subclassing example that shows how to determine if a newly created AOL window is an AOL chat room. [Requires SpyWorks 6; Written in VB6; Created in Win2000; Only tested for AOL 5.0 Revision 205.103]	Download
AOL Hot Keys Example	Craig Jasper, Jr.	An example that shows how easy it is to implement HotKeys for AOL using the SpyWorks WinHook control. [Requires a licensed version of SpyWorks 6 WinHook control - DWSHK36.OCX; Tested with AOL5 and AOL6]	Download
AOL HTML Extractor	Craig Jasper, Jr.	An example to demonstrate how to get the HTML that is the basis behind AOL's RICHCNTL via the Windows clipboard, as well as how to extract the URL data via the Windows clipboard. [Tested on AOL 7.0 Revision 4114.256]	Download
AOL4 Chat/IM/EMail Examples	Shadow-X	Three examples that show how to send text to chat room, send text in IMs, and send text in email.	Download
AOL7 Chat Sender Example	Source	Shows how to send text to AOL7 chat rooms.	Download
AOL7 Instant Keyword Example	Source	Shows how to visit a website via the toolbar icon, keyword window textbox, and then keyword window icon.	Download
AOL7 Instant Message Sender Example	Source	An example that shows how to send an instant message in AOL7.	Download
AOL7 Write EMail Example	Source	Shows how to send email in AOL7.	Download
Auto Fader	Xhandar	This is a 1 - 20 color auto-fader example for AOL. [Requires Dwsbc36.ocx] [Samples dos32.bas and patorjkfaderv2.bas]	Download
Elite textbox	patorjk	This shows you one way you can change how text appears in a textbox as it's being typed.	Download
Fader Example	sungod	This is an example on how to make a fader program. It has a pretty cool way of preview fading the text.	Download
Macro Font Example	patorjk	This is an example that shows you two different ways to display macro fonts for macro shops.	Download
MailBomb Fixer Example	patorjk	This is an example of a mailbomb fixer for aol4. It shows you how to get the mail list then scroll down it checking the item's text with the item you want to delete.	Download
Room Buster/Server Helper	Xhandar	This is an project showing how to make a room buster with a server helper.	Download
Scrambler Game Example	martyr	An example on how to make a chat room scrambler. [Note: Example is missing files and no longer works]	Download
Sir's AOL/AIM Example	SiR	This is an example project that shows you the basics on how to make an AOL/AIM program. [comes with the sir vb6 bas]	Download
Subclass Chat Send	Craig Jasper, Jr.	An example of subclassing an AOL 6.0 chat room's Send button and detecting when the Enter key is pressed in the RICHCNTL. Created for a ccom program, so the chat room doesn't have to see all of your commands. [Requires SpyWorks 6; Written in VB6 with Service Pack 5 installed; Created in Win2000 with Service Pack 2 installed; Only tested for AOL 6.0 Revision 4097.10523]	Download

Fonts, Files, and Databases
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Address Book DataBase	Brian Smith aka local	An example of how to create an address book. [patorjk.com VB Contest Winner]	Download
Address Book Example	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	An example on how to create an address book.	[Missing]
File Explorer	rude	VB example of a file explorer.	Download
File Associations (File Type Generator)	Adam T	Shows how to create file associations so when you double click a certain file type it will open in a certain program.	Download
Font Explorer	Xhandar	Lets you easily view your system's fonts by using an explorer-like interface.	Download
Font Loading Example	gozer	This example shows you how you can use win32 api functions to quickly load all of the fonts on your computer.	Download
Font Loading Example	patorjk	This example shows you one way you can speed up the loading of the fonts through a list of them to a file, then checking to see if any new ones have been added.	Download
Open and Save Text Files	patorjk	This is a pretty simple example. I made it because I get a lot of questions on how to open and save text files.	Download
Random Access Example	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Shows how to open and save a file in Random mode. Commonly used for databases.	Download

Games
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Frogger	John Harper aka Digital Rampage	A VB version of the classic video game Frogger. [patorjk.com VB Contest Winner]	Download
High Score List Example	patorjk	This is an example I made to show you one way on how you can make a high score feature for your project.	Download
Mine Sweeper Game Example	unknown	This is an example on how to make the popular windows game Mine Sweeper.	Download
Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Example	Wiger	A rock, paper, scissors game example, shows how to use the Select Case statement.	Download
Sort List by Scores	patorjk	This is an example that shows you how to sort a listbox by the score a player has (sort of like the ones in chat room scrambler games).	Download
Tic Tac Toe	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	This is an example that shows you how to sort a listbox by the score a player has (sort of like the ones in chat room scrambler games).	Download

Images
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Add Scrollbars to a Picturebox	patorjk	This example shows you how you can add scrollbars to a picturebox.	Download
Fade One Picture into Another Picture	patorjk	This is an example on how to fade one image into another image using vb code.	Download
Icon Editor	Herman Liu	An example on how to make an Icon Editor in VB.	Download
Image Map Maker Example	Xhandar	An example on how to create an image map maker (one that generates image maps for html coding).	Download
Macro Converter	patorjk	This takes pictures and turns them into text (or macros). I had some people tell me they were having some trouble with the macro converting code in the source code section, so I thought I'd post up an example on a macro converter.	Download
Mosaic Maker	patorjk	An example on how to make a photomosaic image with one image (sort of like the ones my mosaicer program makes excepts with only one image).	Download
Palette Writer	Xhandar	Shows how to write microangelo palettes, microsoft aplettes, and adobe color tables.	Download
Picture to HTML	patorjk	This is the source code to the 1.5 version of my picture to macro program.	Download
Zoom-in on Pictures	patorjk	This is an example on how to zoom in on pictures. Sort of like how paint brush does with that little box.	Download

Internet
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Download File	matis	Shows how to download a file off of the internet from a VB program. [Requires the INet control]	Download
Firewall Example	Dracula X	An example on how to create a Firewall.	Download
FTP Program Example	Unknown	This is an example on how to make an ftp program.	Download
Get HTML	matis	Show how to get the source to a website using the inet control.	Download
IP Chat Example	KnoB	This is an IP chat that uses encryption to send data. Made in VB6.	[Missing]
Multiple Client Messenger Server	Robert Cleaver	This is an almost complete example of a multiple client messenger server that shows all online users and allows you to instant message them.	Download
SMPT Mailing Program	Sean Mckeown - kow	This is a simple version of how to make an smtp mailing program.	Download
Web Browser Example	Garren aka Keith Escalade	Very nice example on how to make a web browser and how it works.	Download

Menus
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Menu Effects	dos	Shows you how to change the font and selection colors in a menu. Make sure and read comments in the example so you don't end up crashing VB.	Download
Menu Effects	face	Another take on creating your own menu. This example uses vb forms and allows scroll out effects.	Download
Menu Effects	Da Jokel	Another example on menu effects, this one doesn't involve subclassing.	Download
Menu Effects	casper	Another example on menu effects, this one doesn't involve subclassing.	Download
Run Menu Example	Synthesize	Shows how to select an item in another program's menu.	Download

Special Effects
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Draw Border With API	patorjk	This example shows you how to use win32 api to draw lines and how to draw a border with a certain thickness.	Download
Form Background Fade	patorjk	All code in this example was rewritten. This gives your forms a cool fading top to bottom or Side to Side color effect.	Download
HTML Desktop	Adam Wehmann	Very cool. Create your own little desktop. Read readme.txt file for more instructions/info.	[Missing]
Moving Background Example	Synthesize	Creates a cool effect with a background that scrolls to the right.	Download
Mouse Move and Click	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Shows how to set the mouse position and then cause a mouse click in that spot.	Download
Multi-Line ToolTips	Craig Jasper, Jr.	This is an example on how to make Multi-Line ToolTips.	Download
Rounded Border Example	Chris Neuner	Example showing how to create a form with rounded borders.	Download
Shape a Form to a Bitmap	dos	Shows you how to shape a form to bitmap.	Download

Window Manipulating
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Api Spy	patorjk	This is an example on how to make a 32 bit drag and drop api spy.	Download
Basic API Coder	Greenmonkey	An example showing how to create a code generating program for finding windows. Also shows how to make it so the program can read add-ins.	Download
Code Generator For Window Finding	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Another example on how to create the code to find windows, this one however, can create the code in VB, VC++, and Delphi.	Download
Dock forms in VB	shock	Shows how to align one form next to another one.	[Missing]
Draw Pictures On Windows	patorjk	This is an example on how to draw an image onto another window. Like if you wanted to draw over an image on a toolbar of another program or draw over the button on another program.	Download
Find A Window's Siblings and Children	patorjk	Shows you how to find all of a window's siblings and children.	Download
Find Window Code Generator Example	patorjk	This is an example that shows how to create the code to find a window, just by knowing the window's handle.	Download
Form Docking	Viper	Shows how to make it so you can drag two forms at once. Ex: When you drag form1, if form2 is attached, it will be dragged along with form1.	[Missing]
Load From Old Position	Adam V. aka sabre	Shows how to load a program in the position it was in when it was last used.	Download
MDI & Dialog Example	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	An example showing how to use MDIs and dialogs that they can use.	Download
Positions Example	Pio	Shows one use for registry entries. Move the form to where ever you want it, then click the x on the form. When you load it up the next time it will be where ever you closed it.	Download

Miscellaneous
Code Title	Author	Code Description	Download
Addition (The Hard Way)	Adam Wehmann	Performs addition on any two positive numbers. Is able to add numbers larger than 2,147,483,647 (the max range for a Long data-type variable).	Download
Calculating Money	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Calculates money and shows one use for varibles of the currency type.	Download
Color Spy Example	patorjk	Shows a couple different ways on how to make a color spy.	Download
Compression Example	sloat	This is an example on RunLength Compression, also contains some unfinished work on LZW compression.	Download
Creating Controls at Runtime	Clash	An example of creating controls at runtime, how to drag them around, and how to delete them.	Download
Drag and Drop	patorjk	Ever want to know how to drag and drop images out of pictures? Check this example out.	Download
Drag and Drop Controls	ChiChis	This example shows you how to give the user the ability to move controls at runtime with ease.	Download
E-Note	Flyman	This is an example of a small little note taker. Takes less then 5mins to make, pretty cool and fun to play with.	[Missing]
Get ID3v2 Tag from an Mp3	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Gets information from an MP3 like title, artist, album, etc.	Download
GetTickCount Example	ChiChis	Pretty simple example of the API call GetTickCount to get the amount of time since Windows was booted up.	Download
How to Create System Restore Points	coolspot	How to create system restore points (for Windows XP). This uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) which Im told is only present in Windows 2000/XP.	Download
Key Logger	patorjk	This example shows you one way on how you can log the keys pressed on the users keyboard.	Download
Line Drawing Example	Jim	An easy way to draw lines on a form on mousedown. It doesn't use timers, or pictures boxes at all. Even better yet, its only a few lines on code.	Download
List Item Drag and Drop Example	Eduardo Morcillo	This example shows how to drag ListBox items using functions from comctl32.dll.	Download
List Item Drag and Drop Example	patorjk	This example shows you one way on how you can drag items from one list and put them in another.	Download
Math Expression Evaluator	Adam Wehmann	Shows out to evaluate math expressions given a string. Example: "5 * (3 + 1)" = "20". [patorjk.com VB Contest Winner]	Download
MCI Example	Matt Hart	An example on how to play mid files and avi files without custom controls.	[Missing]
MouseOver MouseOut Example	gozer	This example was written to show the different ways of using the api of mouse move stuff in the mousemove event. Like creating detecting when a mouse enters and leaves the object.	Download
MP3 Player	Jason Hensley	A basic example of using [Jason's] MP3 Class Module to create an MP3 Player that uses the winmm.dll (Uses Api). This was made using Visual Basic 6.0, but should work with any 32 Bit Visual Basic.	Download
MPlay3	hostyle	Source code from mPlay3. Shows basic mp3 playing functions: play, pause, stop, mute, previous file and next file(play) buttons. It also has load last directory.	Download
String Encryption	gozer	Another way you can encrypt and decrypt text. This one's a bit more complicated than the other one.	Download
String Encryption	Dracula X	An example on how to encrypt and decrypt text.	Download
System Information	Craig Jasper, Jr.	An example on getting system information. [Made for Win2000]	Download
System Wide Hotkeys	Craig Jasper, Jr.	An example of system wide hotkeys without a third party control. [VB5 and up]	[Missing]
Tabstrip and Progressbar Control Example	patorjk	This is a small example on how to use the tabstrip control and the progressbar control.	Download
Time Left Example	patorjk	This is an example on how to calculate how much time it will take to preform certain tasks. The idea will only work with things that loop over and over.	Download
Treeview Example	Shawn N.	An example showing how to use the Treeview control found in MSComCtl.ocx.	Download
Windows Resource Meter	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	A resource meter that displays phyiscal, virtual, and page file memory.	[Missing]
Windows Uptime	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	An example that shows you how to find out how long Windows has been running (in months, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds format).	[Missing]
Word Count	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Shows a way of counting the number of words in a text box. Uses some Windows API.	Download
Word Count	Eric Osterheldt aka Deep Arctic	Shows another way to count the number of words in a textbox. No Windows API functions are used here.	[Missing]