ActiveX Controls - Visual Basic tutorial

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This tutorial is a continuation on the “How to Access a MySQL Database Using PHP” tutorial that showed you how to setup a database using phpMyAdmin and how to read data from the database using PHP. In the tutorial I will show you how to write data to the database directly through a from on your website. This is going to be a very basic writing tutorial. We will get into more advanced stuff later on.

In this section of the tutorial, I take each one of the commands and provide the syntax and a brief description of what the command does. For details, you can turn to the VB HELP file. My intent is to allow you to skim quickly over the commands to determine which one can help out in your situation.

Working With Arrays And Bounds Checking

Key trapping - Tell what keys your users are pressing

You see it in just about every Windows application, so how can you do it in your VB application? Fortunately VB provides built-in tools to make it easy for you. While the code you write to respond to a drag and drop operation can be fairly complex, the mechanics of a drag and drop operation are fairly simple and logical.