Resources in Visual Basic 6

If you ask a lot of programmers about Visual Basic "resources" they might think of web sites, books, or the VB Help system. In fact, resource files let you include strings, bitmaps such as Windows BMP files, icons, and all kinds of custom resources that you define yourself right in your Visual Basic project. The basic tutorials often don't cover "resource files" but they're really useful. They give you advantages in speed of execution, ease of packaging and deployment, and can even help with internationalization since you can swap a resource file in one language with one in another. Here's Part One of How To Use Resources in Visual Basic which covers the use of resource files in VB 6. Part Two will cover their use in VB.NET.