Visual Basic FAQs

VBnet FAQ Q&A

Visual Basic Developers Resource Centre

Unofficial Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 FAQ

This FAQ assumes you have Embedded Visual Basic 3.0 installed on your machine.

Visual Basic Source Code

101 Code Samples for Visual Basic 2005

101 Samples featuring many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.

101 Visual Basic and C# Code Samples

This download includes a master set of Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples demonstrating various aspects of the language in the following areas: syntax, data access, Windows Forms, Web development and Web services, XML, security, the .NET Framework, file system and file I/O, interop and migration issues, COM+, ADO.NET, and advanced topics including graphics with GDI+, remoting, serialization, MSMQ, and Windows services.

Classic VB Code

The collected works of Karl E. Peterson, author of numerous Visual Basic articles and samples.

Planet Source Code

Huge repository of VB Source code.

Scarms Visual Basic Code Library

Includes source code screenshots and instructions.

Visual Basic Search Engine

Free code library, free registration required.

A1VBCode

VB source code arranged by category.

Developer Workshop

Visual Basic Source Code Depot.

Visual Basic Explorer

Source Code, Tutorials, Tips, Downloads, and Links.

The Visual Basic Cell

Here you can find source code for many commonly used functions.

Sample Book Applications for VB.NET

A downloadable file that contains 5 sample applications that go with a book on VB.NET.

vbaccelerator.com

A site devoted to providing free, advanced source code to Visual Basic programmers.

VBCode.com

Visual Basic code snippets and files

Code Beach

Free and Open Source Code and Tutorials.

Visual Basic Source Codes

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codeguru

Extensive VB resources.

Visual Basic Tutorials

VB - serial communications

A six part tutorial on serial comms with VB6 and VB .NET from Bitwise magazine (I only see three parts, but it may be a work in progress or maybe I am just too punchy form lack of sleep to find the others right now.)

VB - graphics

A three part tutorial on mastering the GDI with VB6 from Bitwise magazine.

Gary Beene's VB Information Center VB Tutorial

Beginner, intermediate and advanced Visual Basic Tutorials.

VB Helper

Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, and How to's.

The QP7 Programming Page

event driven programming with VB.

Visual Basic Tutorial

The objective of this online tutorial is to provide free tutorial for beginner to intermediate users.

VB How To

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Visual Basic 6 Tutorial

Tutorial and an example Color Changer application.

Visual Basic (Introduction)

This website is for programmers and would-be programmers who want to learn visual basic as quickly as possible, You will be quickly creating applications by following the simple examples

Visual Basic Resource

A set of vb tutorials, links, downloadable samples plus a chat room and message board for developers at all levels of experience.

Visual Basic Tutorials

Here is where you can find tutorials on how to do different things in Visual Basic.

VB Tutorial

This Tutorial is for completely beginners with Visual Basic. It will teach you right from the very start, how to make your first program in Visual Basic.

Visual Basic Tutorial

In order to get started with Visual Basic programming, I presume you already have some basic knowledge in BASIC programming

Make Your First ActiveX Control

In this tutorial we will make a button control, that will pop a message box when the user will click on it.

VB Game Creation Tutorial

This tutorial is specifically aimed at fairly new VB programmers who are interested in writing a game.

Visual Basic (DLL's) and PC Interfacing

This tutorial will show you can write VB programs using a Dynamically linked library (DLL).

VBnet

The Visual Basic Developers Resource Centre

Professor Smiley's

website for the VB beginner.

Visual Basic Internet Programming

Articles, tutorials, source code, and other resources devoted to VB developers.

Visual Basic Books

Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

This is a technical guide to upgrading from the Microsoft website. It is a free visual basic book with 21 chapters and appears to be comprehensive.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours

This book teaches Visual Basic on several levels. You will quickly begin creating applications by following simple examples. These applications will be fully working Windows applications with all the usual user-interface controls, such as command buttons, labels, and text boxes.

Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you�ll encounter. They�ll step you through a quick primer on .NET Framework programming, offering guidance for a productive transition. If you already work with .NET, you�ll jump directly into what�s new, learning how to extend your existing skills. From the innovations in rapid application development, debugging, and deployment, to new data access, desktop, and Web programming capabilities, you get the prerelease insights and code walkthroughs you need to get productive right away.

Programming VB.NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers

This free 513-pages ebook is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Visual Basic .NET programming language addressed to readers with some programming background. No background in Visual Basic is required, however. While it will show you the syntax of VB .NET, this book is not designed to teach you syntax. Trying to force VB .NET into the framework of older versions of VB is ultimately self-defeating: you cannot take advantage of its power if you continue to think within an older paradigm.

Programming VB.NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers

Mirror link.

Visual Basic.NET

Programming VB.NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers

This free 513-pages ebook is a comprehensive hands-on guide to the Visual Basic .NET programming language addressed to readers with some programming background. No background in Visual Basic is required, however. While it will show you the syntax of VB .NET, this book is not designed to teach you syntax. Trying to force VB .NET into the framework of older versions of VB is ultimately self-defeating: you cannot take advantage of its power if you continue to think within an older paradigm.

Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

Get a focused, first look at the features and capabilities in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and .NET Framework 2.0. If you currently work with Visual Basic 6, these authors fully understand the adoption and code migration issues you�ll encounter. They�ll step you through a quick primer on .NET Framework programming, offering guidance for a productive transition. If you already work with .NET, you�ll jump directly into what�s new, learning how to extend your existing skills. From the innovations in rapid application development, debugging, and deployment, to new data access, desktop, and Web programming capabilities, you get the prerelease insights and code walkthroughs you need to get productive right away

Visual Basic .NET 2003 Developer Information

Examine in-depth technical information and learn how to build applications using Visual Basic .NET 2003.

Visual Basic Developer Center

Microsoft's main VB Developer site.

VB.Net at Dev Articles

Articles and short tutorials on vb.net programming.

Visual Basic .NET Tutorials

Short tutorials - some with downloadable example code - for vb.net programming including Visual Basic .NET for VB 6.0 Developers.

Startvbdotnet

This .NET Website is aimed at developers who are new to Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET and at developers who are upgrading from Visual Basic to Visual Basic .NET and from ASP to ASP.NET.

Visual Basic .NET articles

A lerge collection of vb.net articles organized into categories.

101 Visual Basic and C# Code Samples

This download includes a master set of Visual Basic and Visual C# code samples demonstrating various aspects of the language in the following areas: syntax, data access, Windows Forms, Web development and Web services, XML, security, the .NET Framework, file system and file I/O, interop and migration issues, COM+, ADO.NET, and advanced topics including graphics with GDI+, remoting, serialization, MSMQ, and Windows services.

101 Code Samples for Visual Basic 2005

101 Samples featuring many of the new features available with Visual Basic 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.

Implementing Interfaces in VB .NET

VB.NET article.

New Object-Oriented Capabilities in VB.NET - VB.NET OO Implementation

VB.NET Article.

Tcl/Tk Resources

A Tcl(Tutorial for Cool Languages) for Tcl/Tk

A tutorial for Tcl/Tk language. Teachs how to make GUI(Graphical User Interface) Tcl/Tk scripts for Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

TCLWISE: An introduction to the Tcl programming language

This book is an introduction to the main ideas of the Tcl programming language. To read this book, the only prior knowledge needed is some basic understanding of programming in any language. The first nine chapters are available online.

Tcl/Tk Tutorial

A tutorial for Tcl/Tk beginners.

TCL Developer Studio

The Developer Studio provides a useful framework for working with TCL projects. Includes an editor and project management tools.

Tcl Tutorial

This is a short introduction to the Tcl script language.

A Non-Programmer's Introduction to Tcl/Tk

This is a tutorial geared towards all those people who are comfortable with their computer and want to learn how to create some simple (and perhaps not so simple) programs.

Tcl Overview

One page that is an overview and short Tcl reference.

A Cookbook for the Tool Command Language (Tcl) and the Tk Toolkit

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Engineering Guide for the Tcl core implementation

pdf file.

Integrating Tcl with the NT Shell

This document describes how to better integrate the Tcl interpreters with the NT shell. By following these instructions you will be able to treat Tcl/Tk scripts like any Win32 program and specify whether a script is run as a windowed application or a comm

How To Write Tclets

How to write Tclets and how to put them into web pages.

Mktclapp

Mktclapp is a utility that helps you mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to make a standalone executable.

TclTutor : Interactive Computer Aided Instruction for Tcl

TclTutor is a computer aided instruction package for learning the Tcl language. It consists of 43 lessons covering all of the basic Tcl commands and most of the recent (8.0) additions.

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk

Sample chapters available for download in a mixture of pdf and html, a few from each edition of this free tcl book. There also appears to be a partial first draft of the first edition in pdf form.

Introduction to Tcl/Tk

Tcl/Tk tutorial that introduces the basics and the creation of a simple color picker application.

Tcl-Tk Manual Pages

Tcl/Tk documentation at ActiveState in html and tar format.

Objects in TCL

This paper assumes that you are familiar with TCL, and that you have written at least a few simple scripts in TCL.

Tcl and Java Programming

Tcl-Java tutorial held at the Tcl/Tk workshop for Tcl programmers interested in interfacing Tcl scripts to Java, available in HTML and slides.

Ruby On Rails Resources

rubyonrails.com

Central site for Ruby on Rails with downloads and instructional videos.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails

A five-part introduction to the Ruby on Rails framework at OnLamp.com.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2

The second part of the OnLamp article.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial

A six-step tutorial on getting a basic Rails application running.

Four Days on Rails

Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What's missing is a roadmap pointing to the key pages that you need to know to get up and running in Rails development. Four Days on Rails is designed to fill that gap. It's about 40 pages formatted for double-sided printing on A4, and by the time you've read it, you should have a useful toolbox of Rails techniques and a good idea of where to look on the web for more information

What Is Ruby on Rails

This is an introduction and road map to the many features of Rails

Really Getting Started in Rails

Some Rails articles that look to be short tutorials.

Ajax on Rails

This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

Howtos in Ruby on Rails

This is a list of how to documents for Ruby on Rails.

Riding Rails

Official RubyonRails blog.

Ruby Forums

Ruby Forum - Tek-Tips

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SitePoint Forums - Ruby

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SketchUp Ruby Forum

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Ruby - OCS Community Forums

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Ruby Faqs

The Ruby FAQ

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Ruby Faq

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FAQ in Ruby on Rails

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comp.lang.ruby FAQ

This is the faq for the ruby-lang mail list.

Ruby Bloggers

RedHanded

sneaking Ruby through the system

PragDave

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Nuby on Rails

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Robby on Rails

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Riding Rails

Official RubyonRails blog

Glenn Vanderburg

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Slash7.com

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Lovable Lyle

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