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Visual Basic Basics (Microsoft)
Getting a VB or VBA Program to Run (DevX)
VB and the Class Module (Alex Schulz)
Beginner Articles (William Sayers)

Examples

Cryptography, Compression, and String routines (Frez Systems Limited)
Code Samples (Microsoft)
Loan Calculator (Charles Carroll)
VB Code Samples (Joseph Guadagno)
VB 6.0 Guided Tour (Microsoft)
VB Sample Code (Woodger Computing)

Central Sites

VB Start Page (Microsoft)
- VB Start Page (Microsoft)
- Previous Versions (Microsoft)
VB for Applications (Microsoft)
VB Scripting Edition (Microsoft)
Visual Studio Start Page

Related Sites

Get Help With Visual Basic (DevX)
Microsoft Developer Network (Microsoft)
Microsoft Scripting Technologies (Microsoft)
Microsoft TechNet Home (Microsoft)
AllApi.net (The KPD-Team)
Anthony's VBA page (Anthony Sun)
SearchVB (Brent J. Sheets)
Chris & Tim's RAD Web Site (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
Extreme VB (Robert Schwarz)
The Toolbox (Ryan Heldt)
VB (About.com)
VB (VB Groep)
VB / Bestweb.com (Charles M. Carroll & Naoko Yoshitsugu)
VB Code Mega Site (AbstractVB.com)
VB Explorer (Humberto Abreu)
VB Helper (Rocky Mountain Computer Consulting)
VB Instinct (Jens Balchen)
Vbnet - The VB Developers Resource Centre (Randy Birch)
VB Techniques (Northstar Computer Systems)
VB Tips & Tricks (Cuinl)
VB Source Code and Tips (A1VBCode.com)
VBWire - VB Newswire (Duke Engineering)
VB-World (Developer.Com)
VB Zone (DevX)
DeveloperFusion (DeveloperFusion.com)
Zarr's VB Web Site (Zarr.Com)

Link Collections

Open Directory Project
Other VB Sites (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
Resources (VBWM)
The VB Programmers Ring (Heller Productions)
The VB Web Ring (Casey Butterworth)
VB Bookmark (Majid Salimi)
VB Links (Waty Thierry)
VB Links and Reviews (DevX)
VB Resources (The HiTMilL)
VB Ring (Est ?)
VB Zone (Programmers' Heaven)
Visual Basic (Google)

Tutorials

Tutorials (Microsoft)
Tutorials: Beginners (About.com)
Tutorials: Intermediate (About.com)
Tutorials: Advanced (About.com)
Tutorial Section (Chad Smith)
VB Helper Tutorials (Rocky Mountain Computer Consulting)
VB tutorials (1001tutorials.com)
ZDU - ZD Net University (ZD Net)
Creating ActiveX Server Components in Visual Basic (Infinite Software Solutions)
Creating Your First ActiveX Control (Microsoft)
DAO Basics (Charles Carroll)
Debugging ActiveX Server Components in Visual Basic (Infinite Software Solutions)
New Stuff - Visual Basic 6.0 (Application Developers Training)
VB 6.0 Guided Tour (Microsoft)

FAQs

General Q & A (Microsoft)
Naming Conventions for VB (Microsoft Consulting Services)
Past Tips of the Week (Microsoft)
Technical FAQ (Microsoft)
Tips & Tricks (Microsoft)
VB Version 6.0 FAQs (Microsoft)
FAQ (About.com)
The Official VB Beginner's FAQ (VISBAS-BEGINNERS)
VB Helper Q & A (Rocky Mountain Computer Consulting)
5 Top API Tricks (About.com)
Programming Tips (Theo Kandiliotis)
Tips and Tricks (VB Web Magazine)
VB Tips (Jelsoft Enterprises)
VB Tips & Tricks On-Line (Nicheware)
HOWTO: Call Win32 WinHelp API from Visual Basic (Microsoft)

Support

Checklist for VB Component Trouble Shooting (4GuysFromRolla.com)
Highlights for Visual Basic (Microsoft)
Product Support (Microsoft)
Support Downloads (Microsoft)

References

Glossary (Microsoft)
Product Documentation (Microsoft)

Standards

Names, Vars (Charles M. Carroll & Naoko Yoshitsugu)

General Newsgroups

comp.lang.basic.visual.announce
comp.lang.basic.visual.announce Resources (PHOAKS)
comp.lang.basic.visual.database
comp.lang.basic.visual.database Resources (PHOAKS)
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Resources (PHOAKS)
comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty
comp.lang.basic.visual.3rdparty Resources (PHOAKS)
Deja News (Deja News)
Reference.COM (InReference)

National Newsgroups

Company Newsgroups

Forums

Bulletin Board - VB (About.com)

Mailing Lists

Visual Basic Newsletter (About.com)
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups (Microsoft)
VBKL (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
VB Mailing Lists (Ryan Heldt)
VISBAS-BEGINNERS (L-Soft International)
VISBAS-BEGINNERS@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (L-Soft international)
VISBAS-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (L-Soft International)

Chats

Ask the Expert (Microsoft)

General Articles

Client-side Technologies (Microsoft)
Data (Microsoft)
Application Development (Microsoft)
Datasheet (Microsoft)
Evaluation Guide (Microsoft)
General Articles (Microsoft)
Internet Technologies (Microsoft)
Server-side Technologies (Microsoft)
Technical Articles (Microsoft)
What's New in VB 6.0? (Microsoft)
A Brief History of the Development of BASIC (W.M.BergmannTiest)
Basic Dialects (Alexei Syrovatkin)
VB 4.0 and the Class Module (BowmanSoft Software)
Writing OLE Automation Clients and Servers (PC Magazine)
VBA (Summit Software)

Special Articles

"Arranging" Inheritance in VB6 (Microsoft - Alexander Werner)
ADO Connection Strings (Able Consulting)
Technical Articles (Desaware)
Past issues of weekly features (About.com)
VB 6 (Fawcette Technical Publications)
Accessing the Typed Value of XML Elements via Visual Basic (Microsoft)
Building COM Components that Take Full Advantage of Visual Basic and Scripting (Microsoft)
Building external objects with VB (Cobb Group)
Building, Versioning, and Maintaining VB Components (Microsoft)
Creating an FTP Component in VB (internet.com)
Creating a Server Component with VB (Berry International)
Creating a TCP Component in Visual Basic (15 Seconds)
Creating a Web Browser (About.com)
Creating the Support Webclass (Microsoft)
David Stutz on WebClasses, programming Web servers, and other new features in VB 6.0 (Microsoft)
Develop a Professional Application (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal)
Developing a VB Component for IIS/MTS (Microsoft)
Developing Web Applications with Microsoft VB and Microsoft Visual InterDev (Valor Whisler and Jim Soiland)
Do-It-Yourself RecordSets (Rob Macdonald)
Email Enable your App (About.com)
Email Enable your App - Part 2 (About.com)
Extending VB 5.0 to the Internet (Cobb Group)
How to write C DLL's and call them from VB (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
Make your own word processor (About.com)
Make your own word processor part 2 - Using Menus (About.com)
Make your own word processor part 3 - Using SendKeys (About.com)
Moving VB Programmers To Java (James W. Cooper) (TM)
Presenting Forms on the Web (Clarity Consulting)
Printing (Charles M. Carroll & Naoko Yoshitsugu)
Reading Binary Data Files -- Even with Class -- and Playing Shell Games (Fundamental Objects)
Reusing Forms with Class! (Chuck Bonner)
Scaling VB COM with MTS (ASPToday)
The WebClass Developer's Primer (Microsoft)
Together At Last: Microsoft Transaction Server and Visual Basic 6.0 (Microsoft)
Using INI files (About.com)
Using object variables without tears (Cobb Group.)
Using VB 6.0 and ADO 2.0 (Clarity Consulting)
Using VBScript to Generate Vanilla HTML (ASPToday)
Visual Studio 6.0 and Internet Explorer 5 Information (Microsoft)
What's the Scope? (Chuck Bonner)
Which Database do I choose? (About.com)
Write COM Components for ASP in Visual Basic (Microsoft)
XML DOM Interfaces (Microsoft)
Zip and Unzip Using VB5 or VB6 (CodeGuru)
Universal Data Access (Microsoft)
- Universal Data Access (Microsoft)
- OLE DB (Microsoft)
- OLE DB for OLAP (Microsoft)
- ActiveX Data Objects (Microsoft)
- Remote Data Service (Microsoft)
- ODBC (Microsoft)

Books

Books (Chad Smith)
VB Books (JavaBookstore & Amazon.com)
VB Books (Jelsoft Enterprises)
VB Books (Valassis Enterprises)
VB Recommended Reading (Charles M. Carroll & Naoko Yoshitsugu)

Magazines

Developer Network Journal (Microsoft)
Microsoft Interactive Developer (Microsoft)
Microsoft Systems Journal (Microsoft)
MSDN Magazine (Microsoft)
Access-Office-VB Advisor Magazine (Advisor Publications)
Dr. Dobb's Journal
VB Programmer's Journal (DevX)
VB Project Management Journal (Gregory Parker)
VB Web Magazine (BowmanSoft Software)

Organizations

Denver Visual Studio .NET User Group
MSDN User Group Page (Microsoft)
User Groups (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
VBPG Homepage (United Programmers)

Conferences / Workshops

MSDN Events (Microsoft)
VSLive (Visual Studio Developer Conference)

Utilities / Tools

MZ-Tools (Carlos J. Quintero)
Activex Controls For High End Mathematical Calculations (Math Point)
BizObjects (Pathway Systems)
COM Explorer (4Developers)
Convert - Visual Basic to Java GUI (Black Dirt Software)
Microsoft Visual Modeler (Microsoft)
- Microsoft Visual Modeler (Microsoft)
- Visual Modeler FAQ (Microsoft)
ObjGen (Everett Ward Systems)
Visual Speedware (Speedware)
Visual Basic To Java Code Convertors (TransTools)
Slice and Dice (William M Rawls)

Other Software

HyperView for MFC (Dundas Software)
PolyMedia SDK (Levitech)
Total VB SourceBook - VB Source Code Library (FMS)
Vendor Web Site Directory (Northstar Computer Systems)

FTP Archives

Add-Ons & Components (Microsoft)
Code Samples (Microsoft)
DevX Product Guide (DevX)
MSDN Downloads (Microsoft)
VB Samples & Downloads (Microsoft)
Visual Studio Service Packs (Microsoft)
Brad's VB-32 Programs and Samples (Brad Martinez)
BrattBerg Library (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
Code Libraries (About.com)
Component Software (BeCubed Software)
DevX Product Guide (DevX)
Download / VB Source Code (Jens Balchen)
Free Source Code (Zarr.net)
FTP (Cobb Group)
Other VB Download Sites (Tim Lloyd & Christopher Bond)
Ramon's VB5 Netstop (Ramon Guerrero)
VB Archive (CodeArchive.com)
VB Code (Semin Nurkic)
Visual Basic Code (vbcode.com)
VB Files (WinSite)
VB Programmer's SourceBook (CodeGuru)
VBTechTips (VBTechTips)
VB World on Planet Source Code (Ian Ippolito)