Round those corners and make your user interfaces a little jazzier with a rounded rectangle Panel control; a fun chunk of code to incorporate into your application.

The MenuStrip and ToolStripMenuItem are a little harder to use than the Menu from earlier versions of VB. Walk through exercises using the MenuStrip, ToolStrip, and the Command behavior pattern to encapsulate a Recents menu for your applications that operate on files.

Gain the ability to contain controls and add a little preview for your control in design time.

Learn how to create your own GroupBox, with added features such as Alignment for the Title, and a scrollbar for child controls.

Learn about some simple timer functions that produce some very complex effects.

Extension Methods permit programmers to add behavior to a class without creating a wrapper. Here, you will learn how to implement Extension Methods in Visual Basic and .NET.

Create a visual speedomer that you can use in your Visual Basic programs.

Send a SMS text message from your PC via your modem.

This article is about creating ActiveX controls in Visual Basic 6 that have two extra mouse Events: MouseLeave, MouseHover.

Create your own Analogue clock control in Visual Basic 5 / 6. (Added: 4-Apr-2000

Build Splitter Window capability into any VB project easily and quickly. (Added: 3-Sep-2000)

Create your own tab control without using the common controls or the Windows API. (Added: 4-Apr-2000)

Create an ActiveX control that will produce a message box. This code is based upon Netscape's new message box. (Added: 14-May-2000)

Create your own professional calendar control in VB5/6. Completely customizable with many different styles. (Added: 4-Apr-2000)

(Originally posted December 23, 1998.)

This article demonstrates how to capture the Column Resize event in a MSFlexGrid Control (VB5 - maybe VB6). (Originally posted April 12, 1999.)

This code shows how to use a TextBox control with a Grid.OCX (VB4) or a MSFlexGrid.OCX (VB5/6) control to make an editable grid control. It also demonstrates how to copy the selected Cells to the ClipBoard. (Originally posted May 7, 1999.)

Shows how to drop down the DataComboBox in VB6 when the SendMessage API call doesn't work. (Originally posted May 2, 1999.)

This code shows how to add nodes to a Sheridan TreeView control with popup menus - the code can easily be converted for use with a standard TreeView. (Originally posted July 1,1999.)