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Index of Resources

Visual Basic User Group Connection

Great Microsoft Pages

Developer Sites Offering Visual Basic Info & Archives

Visual Basic Jobs Advertised Online

Visual Basic Online Magazines

Visual Basic Newsgroups

Great Microsoft Pages

ADO 2.7 Programmer's Reference

Developer Sites Offering Visual Basic Info and Archives

Advanced Visual Basic
Advanced Visual Basic (AVB) contains 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 Visual Basic programming under your belt. The content of these pages is aimed at the experienced Visual Basic programmer and touch on topics found nowhere else on the web.

AX2NET -- ActiveX/COM Component Directory
This site contains links to various categories of components and includes articles and tips for developers of various skill levels.

Chris & Tim's RAD Pages
Chris & Tim's RAD site is dedicated to Visual Basic programming and related information. You will find a whole host of updated archives and brand new sections to browse through.

CodeArchive
THE Source Code Archive Site. Download source code and snippets for thousands of Visual Basic, Java, and TCL/TK Programs.

CodeHound
CodeHound is a powerful Internet search engine designed for VB developers. If you have a seemingly unanswerable VB question, CodeHound will search web pages, books, ZIP Files and the Microsoft Knowledge Base to find the answers, quickly and without having to sift through non-VB search results. And CodeHound's free add-in for VB lets you use CodeHound without ever leaving the comforts of VB!

COOL.STF
The programmers at COOL.STF.com hand craft fine ActiveX™ Controls and design connectivity software that allows Windows® to connect to Unix and AMOS hosts. With the idea that Visual Basic developers are often locked out of some of the cooler parts of Windows, the guys at COOL.STF developed the RasDial ActiveX control - probably the first to allow Visual Basic to communicate with RAS, the Remote Access Service. Their product offering now includeds host connectivity software, additional ActiveX controls, AMOS utilities and some Java applets.

DevArchive.com
Billed as the "Daily Updated Developer's Heaven," DevArchive.com provides hundreds of reviewed components, samples, and applications for VB, Delphi, Visual C++, Java, and Perl developers. It also has free downloads, top lists, tools, forums, and much more.

Focus on Visual Basic
Another great site for Visual Basic programmers! Be sure to check out this site for great links, bulletin boards, chats, upcoming VB events, a newsletter, business listings...and so much more!

iNTERFACE Enterprises
This site is jam packed full of useful information and links! Here is a sample of some of the topics on the site: The Web Developer, Visual Basic Tips, ActiveX Tutorial, DevPatch Designer Studio...and much more!

Programmers Heaven
A general programmers' site that includes a growing collection of excellent Visual Basic downloads and links.

Software Engineering Australia (SEA)
SEA is a not-for-profit organisation developing software engineering expertise in industry. Our site includes a resource directory for software engineering.

TheScarms Visual Basic Code Library
TheScarms is dedicated to providing solutions to many hard-to-solve programming issues. Problems covered are mostly those that are difficult or impossible to solve solely with Visual Basic. As a result, many of the solutions rely heavily on the Microsoft Windows API functions.

St. Louis Visual Basic Users Group
This site includes sample code, tips and tricks sorted by category, job listings, and an on-line newsgroup.

VBCE.COM
VBCE.COM is the premier internet center for VBCE information. This site aims at being the complete site for VBCE information. VBCE.COM is the first VBCE site on the World Wide Web.

vbCity.com and @vbCity.net
A terrific site for VB programmers, vbCity.com features examples, source code, downloadable developer tools, add-ins, a lot of book reviews and sample chapters, articles, interviews, opinions and a lot of links. @vbCity.net offers FREE webmail addresses with easy access from any web browser in the world and instant new messages notification!

vbCode Magician
vbCode Magician is a searchable Visual Basic tips and source code resource trying to make those “How do I do that?” questions a little easier to answer. Find the solution to your programming problem here.

VBnet
VBnet is the Visual Basic developers resource centre. Here is just some of what you will get on this site: the latest code and news, a code library, frequently asked questions and answers, Visual Basic Links, a knowledge base, Web searches, and VBnet Downloads!

VBTips at the VBShop
This page provides some good tips for Optimizing for memory, Optimizing for speed, Designing for Understandability, Designing for Robustness, Designing for Efficiency, and some interesting survey results.

Visual Basic Bookmark
A comprehensive directory of programming resources and development information for Visual Basic programmers & Web developers.

Visual Basic by Nerd World Media
This is a great search engine full of links to Visual Basic sites. You can easily add your Web site to the list, serch for a job or look through the classifieds!

WinSite
WinSite market's themselves as "The Planet's Largets Software Archive for Windows." This link will take you directly to the first page of WinSite's Archive of Visual Basic files.

Jobs Advertised OnLine

Visual Basic Jobs
A great first stop on the web when looking for a Visual Basic job!

Jobs For Programmers
The #1 job site for programmers supporting telecommute and weekend side jobs. Built for programmers - born from the programming community . . . standing behind programmers and web developers in their pursuit of challenging and progressive career opportunities.

JustVBJobs.com
Billed as "Your Job Source for Visual Basic," this site contains a variety of tools and information geared toward assisting VB professionals in their career development. Includes an extensive job search engine and industry news updates.

Visual Basic On-Line Magazines

VBWire
VBWire, the Visual Basic Newswire, is your ultimate source of Visual Basic news. Their editors scour the net every day to bring you the hottest news so you don't have to. VBWire covers everything from new product announcements to product reviews, press articles, books, seminars and VB website announcements. Bookmark this site right now so you'll always be in touch!

Visual Basic Web Magazine
Brought to you by Bowmansoft, this is a great Webzine full of great articles, information on vendors, news groups, tips and tricks and other Visual Basic links.

The Visual Basic Programmer's Journal Development Exchange
This is the most comprehensive source of information and tools for MicrosoftWindows Developers:
Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, Catalogs and listings (VB, VC++, OLE, Back Office, Access and Visual Fox), VBITS Conferences, VB CD, FTP Books, and information on our CompuServe Forums.

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