TABLE OF CONTENTS With its massive existing developer and code base, Visual Basic 6 (VB6) remains a serious developer tool, particularly for in-house projects. If your priority is to get something working quickly, there really is no competition no need either to wrestle with the .NET Framework, and the runtime is a frugal 1MB.
Suggestions by Microsoft that it would gradually phase out support for Visual Basic 6 were greeted with howls of protest from the substantial VB6 developer community. A reprieve of sorts was granted in the form of VBRun the official Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/
This sample project is available on the website at
www.skylark.ie/qt4.net/Samples/VB6
Create a new Standard EXE project.
Choose Project Components
Find Apple QuickTime Control 2.0, check the box beside it, and click OK. This should add the QuickTime Control to the VB6 Toolbox. If the Toolbox isn t visible, choose View Toolbox.
Select the QuickTime Control icon in the Toolbox. Click and drag on the form to add the control. If all goes well, the control will appear with the QuickTime logo in the center.
To view the properties of the control, choose View Properties Window or press F4. You will find that the default name given to the control is QTControl1.
Revisit Project Components and this time add the Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0.
From the Toolbox, add a Common...
