VB6 - Add-in tools
i updated the Tab-strip add-in: 1 - added the windows maximizated, but, seems, these part autor add it on another version: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....sing-hooking); 2 - added: when we...
View Article[VB6, twinBASIC] Intro to Vectored Exception Handling: Crash-proof CopyMemory
It's been a long standing problem that access violations like a bad address for CopyMemory and other exceptions can't be handled by On Error. One solution to that is Vectored Exception Handling (VEH)....
View Article[VB6, VBA, twinBASIC] Intro to Vectored Exception Handling: Crash-proof...
It's been a long standing problem that access violations like a bad address for CopyMemory and other exceptions can't be handled by On Error. One solution to that is Vectored Exception Handling (VEH)....
View ArticleHosting console in VB6 form
This time it comes with colors. Place a Timer1 on Form1 and paste this code: Code: '--- Form1 Option Explicit DefObj A-Z Private Const MODULE_NAME As String = "Form1"...
View ArticleVB6 call-stack capture via dbghelp.dll (32-bit StackWalk + Unicode symbol APIs)
This module produces call-stacks with parameters peeked based on their types being surmised from the names w/ hungarian notation (heh) like this: Code: Project1.exe!Form1::pvProcess Line 38...
View ArticleReturn value from CallDevToolsProtocolMethod from RC6/cWebView2
I host WebView2 in my vb6 app using RC6. I would like to call CallDevToolsProtocolMethod Page.printToPDF and get the base64 of the pdf back, but I believe the current version of RC6 does not provide a...
View ArticleIronVault - Emergency Intrusion Backup System
Hey hey guys/gals This crafty piece of code in vb6 is epic. IronVault - Emergency Intrusion Backup System ' Written in Visual Basic 6.0 (Uncompiled Source) ' ' Monitors Windows Security Event Log for...
View ArticleHow to use pixel-art upscaler for app icons on High DPI monitors
Thanks to Claude this project has been ported to pure VB6 implementation and it works! Code: '========================================================================= ' ' xBRZ 1.8 VB6 translation '...
View Article[VB6] cWebView2 — RC6-compatible WebView2 wrapper
This is a drop-in replacement of vbRichClient6's cWebView2 class, implemented in pure VB6 directly against the official Microsoft WebView2 COM API. No RC6.dll dependency, no dependency on the WebView2...
View Article[VB6] czWebview — Full-Featured WebView2 UserControl (No OCX, No Registration)
czWebview — Full-Featured WebView2 UserControl for VB6 Embed modern web content (HTML5, CSS3, ES6+) in your VB6 applications using the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime. Zero external dependencies beyond...
View Article[VB6] FlexGrid to XLSX (and CSV/PDF) Exporter — no Excel installation required
Download from GitHub. This code was made mainly by Claude Sonnet v4.6 and v5.0, but also with some collaboration from Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and off course from me. It exports any FlexGrid-family...
View Article[VB6/TB] TC6 (TwinClient 6) — SQLite for VB6 and TwinBasic
TC6SQLite is another "em dash repo" namely Claude's reimplementation of the SQLite subsystem of RC6 as a single Ax-DLL. Note that TB's x64 port is not ready i.e. still uses winsqlite3.dll and does not...
View ArticleUUID/GUID v7 Generator
I needed to generate UUID/GUID version 7 values and thought I would share the module in case anyone else here needs to do the same. A little background on UUIDv7 is available here:...
View ArticleCSharedMemCache
Introduction CSharedMemCache is a name-based key-value memory cache that can be shared across processes. It is best suited to a small-to-medium, read-heavy/write-light, same-session cache shared by a...
View ArticleRevised Simple GDI+ reusable Drawing Primitives Class
This is a revised version of my simple GDI+ Drawing Primitives Class. The big improvement is in the text drawing procedure, which now uses font-caching so as not to recreate the font object on every...
View ArticleVB6 Resize Image
This simple routine allows an image to be resized dynamically, since the Image control and PictureBox control do not provide that function in VB6. J.A. Coutts Attached Files ResizeP.zip (206.3 KB)
View ArticleCross Process Shared Memory Cache w/ Blocking RW
Introduction CSharedMemCache is a name-based key-value memory cache that can be shared across processes. It is best suited to a small-to-medium, read-heavy/write-light, same-session cache shared by a...
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