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Exploring VB6 Series
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Volume 3 just released

Even though .NET has been available for a while, a great many developers are still working in VB6. The Exploring VB6 series is intended to make available the many VB6 articles written by best-selling author Dan Appleman for Pinnacle's Visual Basic newsletter or Visual Basic Programmer's Journal (now Visual Studio Magazine). These best-of collections cover a variety of topics, mostly at an intermediate level to advanced. All of the articles have been updated and in some cases expanded for these collections. Where appropriate, a VB .NET supplement has been added to show how the problem would be addressed in VB .NET and/or C#.

Volume 1:Essentials - Contents

  • A DLL is a DLL is a DLL - Learn about the different types of DLLs.
  • The Ten Commandments for Safe API Programming - Essential information for anyone making API calls from VB6.
  • When a bug is not a bug - How mistakes in debugging can lead you to detect bugs that don't really exist.
  • Taking the Long View - How to correctly handle versioning for your ActiveX components.
  • CheapTrace - Shows how to implement a "cheap" tracing application using SendMessage and a list box.
  • The Query that came in from the Cold - If this story doesn't teach you the importance of the ByVal keyword, nothing will.

Volume 2: Files and Directories - Contents

  • Free at Last - Finding the free space on a disk sounds simple, but in the era of 200GB drives there is more to it than you might think.
  • Café de Visual Basic - Answers to reader's questions on a variety of topics including short file names, serial I/O and large bitmaps.
  • An Editorial Challenge - Learn to use COM image objects to find images associated with files. Then Unlearn the same material as you learn to port the code to VB .NET.
  • The Secret File - The SHFileOperation API function lets you perform a variety of file operations, if you can figure out how to use it.

Volume 3: System and Utilities - Contents

  • The Big Event - Reading the event log should be easy, but there's more to it than meets the eye.
  • TTF: Inside a Font - You don't need to install a font to find out about it.
  • Your Printer is What? - Printing in Windows is completely device independent. Yeah, right.
  • The Unimess Caper - The interface between VB and a DLL can be dangerous, in more ways than one.

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