Questions tagged [vb6]
Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6) is the "third-generation" event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for its COM programming model. It was also considered a relatively easy programming language to learn and use, because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage.
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List<T> implementation for VB6/VBA
Recently I decided VB6's Collection wasn't enough for my needs, so I decided to implement something like C#'s List<T>. ...
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Materializing any ADODB Query
Following-up on Creating ADODB Parameters on the fly and pushing the "wrapping" of ADODB a step further, I have written two more classes that allows me to expose methods that don't require a ...
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Creating ADODB Parameters on the fly
I have put together a small wrapper class to simplify creating parameterized ADODB queries with VB6/VBA. At this point I'm keeping things simple, so it's only supporting input parameters and from what ...
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A CSharpish String.Format formatting helper
A while ago I implemented .net's string.Format() method in VB6; it works amazingly well, but I'm sure there has to be a way to make it more efficient.
I'll start ...
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FileWriter supporting writing to multiple files
I got bored with opening and closing files whenever I need to write to one, so I wrote a FileWriter class that's used like this:
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Dictionary<TKey, TValue> Implementation
This class encapsulates a List<KeyValuePair> (see List<T> implementation here, and ...
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File reader/writer (text)
Following-up on this post, I wanted to be able to use my FileWriter with a syntax reminiscent of .net's using blocks, which ...
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Extending the VBA Extensibility Library
The Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility library let's us meta-program VBA, but the way it handles (or rather, doesn't handle) getting to the actual subs and functions is clunky at ...
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A more readable InStr: StringContains
Consider the following:
If myString = "abc" Or myString = "def" [...] Or myString = "xyz" Then
In C# when myString == "abc" ...
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Building a better Collection. Enumerable in VBA
VBA's 'Collection' is.... lacking, so, I've been working on a better Collection object that implements many of the features of C#'s Enumerable. This is very much inspired by this question and a follow ...
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Multi-dimensional array sort and filter functions
As I said in my last post Multi-dimensional ascending and descending sort array function, I'm back with the final version of the code.
Added features:
Filter array function by following parameters: <...
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Revisited IsTypeSafe method implementation for "type-safe" List
Following up on List<T> implementation for VB6/VBA, I'd like some thoughts about the revisited IsTypeSafe function, below.
The previous version pretty much ...
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KeyValuePair implementation
In order to implement my own Dictionary<TKey, TValue> in VB6, I've implemented a KeyValuePair class, which can accomodate ...
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ADODB Wrapper Class
I use ADO (specifically for accessing SQL) daily at work. So, I finally decided that I was going to create a class that makes it simple for myself and other programmers on the job to use. Just the ...
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