VISUAL BASIC

[VB 3.0/4.0] [Others (OCX/VBX/VB5)]

 
VISUAL BASIC 3.0 & 4.0

Free-B Freeware for Visual Basic Programmers

32-Bit and 16-Bit files for VB4 and VB3.

Jens Balchen's Source Code Library

This is a collection of VB4 source code you can't find anywhere else.

VB4 Resource Center

Files, Source, Links, and more. It's a little slow, but worth the wait.

Visual Basic 3.0 Archive

This well-documented file archive has only files for Visual Basic 3.0

Visual Basic 3.0 Source Code Archive

This is the Wild Web of Visual Basic's sample code archive.

Visual Basic 4.0 Archive

This well-documented file archive has only files for Visual Basic 4.0

OTHERS (including general stuff, OCX/VBX, and VB5)

ActiveX.Com

C-Net's ActiveX Control Library. Really Nice.

Advanced Visual Basic

Chris Duke says his site offers "information on Visual Basic for the advanced Visual Basic programmer. AVB is not sponsored by Microsoft, a book, or any product. It is a page by a developer written for developers. It assumes you already know about OLE automation, object-orientation, and hopefully have a few years of VB programming under your belt." Good stuff.

Benjamin's Home Page

This site has a few really good freeware tools that we hadn't seen anywhere else.

Brattberg VBX and OCX Files

Developed VBX controls since 1991 and will continue to support this technology as long as the market wants them. A good source for some great shareware.

Brian's Visual Basic Home Page

A smorgasbord of news, book reviews, links, source code, icons, and other VB goodies.

Cafe' Visual Basic

This site has a few hard-to-find controls and other files for VB programmers.

Cal State Visual Basic Shareware Archive

This site is extremely comprehensive and has lots of VBXs, DLLs, and source code.

Carl & Gary's Visual Basic Home Page

Here's how Carl Franklin and Gary Wisniewski describe their VB page: "This is the first and definitive source of information about Visual Basic, add-on products, and the user community on the Internet. Our ongoing mission is to create a virtual gathering place for Visual Basic programmers throughout the world. This page is dedicated to the free exchange of software, ideas, and information."

Catalyst SocketTools

Check out the goodies here. Craig Harwin says this site "is a collection of custom controls that harnesses the power of the internet for integration into applications. Controls for FTP, Telnet, SMTP and POP3 (e-mail), NNTP, DNS, Ping, TCP, UDP and a complete Web Browser are included as VBX and ActiveX (16 and 32 bit) components." Download a full-featured evaluation copy.

Chris & Tim's RAD Home Page

"These pages are dedicated to Visual Basic programming and related information." Lots of great archived files, FAQs, tutorials, and more.

Cool.stf

Site includes quite a few cool (of course) freeware and shareware OCXs and ActiveX controls including a RAS ActiveX control.

Daniel Wiman's Visual Basic pages

Tips, file archives you can download, links, and more.

Donut

A newly released program that allows a VB source code file to be transmitted as a web link and viewed in an external viewer that interacts with the user and their browser. The program and development information are available free.

Eddie Juden's Home Page

This site has a few VB development tools for download.

Free Software from Microsoft

Microsoft's free file library page (for all MS products)

Gary Beene's Visual Basic World

Gary Beene says, "The idea is to acknowledge the existence of just about any resource that can help new or experienced users be more productive. Names, phone numbers, summaries of what's being discussed on the networks, and software code are just a few of the things that are on my home page." -- This is a great site.

VB Knowledge Base

Microsoft's knowledge-base papers, which are now in a help-file form. There are some interesting tidbits in this file.

Interface Enterprises

A fairly large VB and CGI developer site. Lots of links, files, code, tips, freeware, and shareware! Excellent site for beginners and professionals.

Jose's Visual Basic World

News, tips, links, downloads, book recommendations, and more, all in a well-organized and useful format.

Jonathan Wilson's Home Page

This guy has a small collection of some good source code.

The Journeyman

A page of resources for the working Visual Basic and C programmer. Articles, source code. Good!

Jumbo Shareware Archives

Excellent shareware archive that has a few good VB files.

Li Chen's Home Page

This page a few great items including a public key encryption toolkit, a comparison of using RDO v. straight ODBC.

Mabry Software

Mabry has lots of great original shareware VBXs.

Micha's World

Shareware controls and other goodies. Some in German and some in English.

Microsoft Visual Basic: The Home Page

What can we say? This is where Visual Basic comes from, so it's the best source for up-to-the minute product information. Technical updates, free downloads, white papers, release dates—whatever you need to know about VB, you can probably find here.

MicroSpec

Some really unique VB libraries for download.

Neil's Source Code Library

This site has a bunch of VB source code, Quick BASIC source code, and JavaScript source.

OLE Controls WWW Server

Shareware and freeware OCX files for downloading. Also lists several commercial OCXs.

Paul Treffer's Code Corner

If you're looking for good VB source code to play with here it is.

Quatec Visual Basic Netport

20 or so VB related files. Good stuff, too.

Scott Madigan's VB Emporium Source Code Library

A good set of files for VB programmers (controls, DLLs and code).

SoftCircuits Home Page

SoftCircuits is the company headed up by Jonathan Wood, frequent contributor to Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and noted author. This page has source code and libraries available for download (and purchase).

The Software Labs

The Software Labs has enjoyed success as a leading purveyor of mail-order shareware. Now you can download the files from their site.

Southern Cross Code Downloads

Quite an extensive list of files. We're not sure whether they are unique or not, but you should definitely check it out.

Springsoft FTP Archives

Lots and lots of files here too!

Tektonix Software

These guys offers a good range of shareware programs to download.

VB Code Bank CD

We couldn't believe how many files there are at this site. You can search the CD-ROM online for titles and download them. You can also purchase the CD.

VBX/OCX Heaven

50 Shareware VBX Files with descriptions.

Ventana Press Visual Basic Free Software Archive