Building Small Utilities with Visual Basic 6
Most useful software in a small office is not a big platform. It is a tiny internal tool that removes one repeated pain: renaming files, collecting form data, creating a daily folder tree, or checking whether a service is alive. In 2004, Visual Basic 6 is still one of the fastest ways to build that kind of utility on Windows 2000/XP. Where VB6 Still Wins If the job needs a GUI and needs to ship quickly, VB6 remains hard to beat: ...