Visual Basic and Libraries

Discussion in 'Programming' started by dtex23, Mar 22, 2007.

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    Hello All,

    A very basic question: Is there anywhere that has a list of 3rd party or extended libraries to import into your application along with basic function ("...this library turns the screen colors...") and calling conventions
    (changeColor(arg1 as color, arg2 as something_else)) ?

    There seems to be all this STUFF out there and no ref material around! The number one thing I am looking for at the moment is msinet.ocx, but a resource as above would really help future apps along.

    Thanks.
     
    dtex23, Mar 22, 2007 IP
  2. vbrocks

    vbrocks Active Member

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    If you are talking about VB6 (hence .ocx) I would suggest looking at MSDN. You can probably still buy the CDs with MSDN on ebay, the last one supporting VB6 and non-.NET stuff was like October 2001. I think it's free now, so no problem with licensing.
    For 3rd party dlls/ocxs, you can always attach it to your project (add to References), then run Object Browser to see all methods within the component. The Immediate window was my favorite, where you can call methods without writing any code or compiling the project.
     
    vbrocks, Mar 26, 2007 IP