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One really great advantage of deciding to learn VB 6 is that the world has had time to develop top notch tutorials. There are really more of them than you have time! We're here to help you solve that problem by selecting the good ones so you don't have to spend your time on the others. You can find a concise set of the best pages here that will get you up to speed on VB 6. Go through this list of pages thoroughly, and then print a diploma for yourself. You're a VB 6 programmer!
Moving Up to Objects
At about this time, a few experienced programmers reading this will be shouting, "VB 6 is not object oriented!!"
Mmmmmm ... Yes it is.
This has got to be one of the great religious struggles in programming. Although the wars don't rage like they once did, some people have rigidly defined definitions of exactly what is, and is not, object oriented and according to those definitions, VB 6 and predecessors do not make the grade. Others, including me, take the view that "object oriented" is a concept, and not a set of rules. VB 6 is clearly object oriented in concept.
Visual Basic and Data
The first thing you need to know about is databases and one of the best to start with is Access, Microsoft's database for non-server environments. The About.com 'Databases' site has an excellent article about Access here.
When you have created (or borrowed ... several great example databases are available along with VB and Access from Microsoft) a database, the next thing to do is use the Data Control object to read and write the data. An article about how to do that with Microsoft's latest data technology, ADO, can be found here.
Visual Basic and Active Server Pages
Another more advanced technology that you can use with VB 6 is called Active Server Pages, or ASP. This is the technology that allows you to run your VB 6 system on an IIS web server and server HTML pages controlled by your programming over the web. You can find an introduction to doing that in a VB 6 environment here.
When VB.NET was introduced, Microsoft put millions into the advertising budget because they were very worried about the competition. They really were not sure that .NET could measure up. The competition is VB 6!
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