Visual Basic Tips

This section will inform you of any interesting tips regarding Visual Basic. I will keep posting tips as they come to my attention. If you have something interesting to share then please let me know by using the user feedback page.

Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition

Visual Basic Control Creation Edition is designed to be the easiest way to create ActiveX controls. The popularity of Visual Basic stems from its ease of use. Interfaces are drawn or painted, and sophisticated applications are assembled from prebuilt, pretested components. Visual Basic 5.0 Control Creation Edition applies the same assembly technique to the construction of ActiveX components. ActiveX controls can be created from scratch or by assembling any of the thousands of commercially available ActiveX controls.
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How to make forms in Microsoft Excel

- Added 27/12/2000

You can still make simple Visual Basic forms even if you don't have Visual Basic. Microsoft has incorporated some Visual Basic elements into Excel. In order to use Excel as a Visual Basic IDE just perform the following simple steps in Excel 97 or higher:-

Open Excel and right click on the 'sheet1' tab at the bottom of the page. Click on the option 'View Code'.

A Window labeled Microsoft Visual Basic will open up. Close the default code window that appears. Next, go to the 'Insert' option in the Menu Bar and click on 'User Form'. You now have a Visual Basic IDE in front of you.

Although this method is by no means any substitute for the real thing it is a good way for learners who do not have Visual Basic to write simple programs.

If you have any tips and tricks on how to use the Visual Basic environment better please let me know so that I can put it up for the benefit of eveyone.