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free visual basic developer tools and applications developed by clint lafever

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	autofill textbox control (autofill textbox) have your textbox automatically fill as the user types this version of a standard textbox works just as the standard textbox does, however, it has the capability or remembering x number of previous entries. as the user types, it can automatically fill in the textbox based on previous entries.... ( more)
	deck52.ocx active x control (deck of cards) deck of cards this is my little deck of cards rolled up into a simple to use control. the control has the ability to display any of the standard 52 cards and also a property for loading a custom picture that can be used for either a custom backface of a card or for jokers or what not. the control can even shuff... ( more)
	extended listview control (extlvctl.ocx) (extended listview) an enhancement of microsoft's listview control: the extended listview control is my latest attempt in making the listview control even better. the extended listview control will allow developers to use the listview almost like they would a grid control, however, it will be completely under ... ( more)
	form fader control (2k/xp only) (form fader) add transparency effects to your forms the form fader control is built for those who want to add a nice form fade in and fade out effect to their forms. i can also be used to set a transparency level for a form. note: the form fad... ( more)
	html generator dll (html generator) generate html reports the html generator component is a vb6 created activex dll which will allow developers to quickly and easily generate reports using html and the users default browser. the dll is only 68kb in size and contains simple calls to generate tables and embed graphics as well as a method to generate a table... ( more)
	object relation control (object relation) show relationships graphically the object relation control allows you to graphically display a diagram of how objects relate. each object can store a unlimited about of data elements that can be accessed and displayed on user events. each relationship can also contain unlimited about of data which can also be displayed by events ... ( more)
	screen capture component (screen capture dll) capture images off the screen the screen capture component is a vb6 created activex dll which will allow developers to quickly and easily capture any hwnd (screen, window, control) to a bmp or jpg file. if you are already making your application in vb, then you will already be including all the runtime files for this dll to work... ( more)
	aol instant messenger activex control (vcaim) hook your im clients into aol's servers with ease. today (july 8th, 2003) i made this new control (mainly as help for another developer who wanted to get his im project to work with aol im). while this is in it's early beta stages (only worked on it for one day) it does work and can quickly give any developer the tools needed to add aol im support ... ( more)
	vcbarcode.ocx (vcbarcode) generate 128-b barcodes in your applications and reports. my vcbarcode control will give you the ability to create 128-b barcodes. give the control a value of any text or numbers and it will do the rest. you have the option to either show or not show the text value under the barcode. it also has one method to get a picture object back of the barcode ima... ( more)
	vcbutton control (vcbutton) customize your buttons with a more graphical appearence. the vcbutton control is a graphically customizeable button control. in nature it is a basic button control. however, this control has 6 picture image settings to define how the button will look, along with a maskcolor setting to define a color to appear transparent at runtime. with this control a... ( more)
	file treeview control (vcfiletreeview) display folders and files in a treeview. the vcfiletreeview control is a simple little control i made for somebody in a vb forum at http://vbcity.com. it simply is a treeview that shows all the drives on a system and will fill in with folders and files as the nodes are expanded. it also has... ( more)
	vcform force size control (vcform size) restrict how your users size your forms. this little (invisible at runtime) control, when placed on a form, will allow the developer to restrict how a form is sized by the user. ie: cannot make larger than x, cannot make smaller than x. as an example of a program you may already use that does this is aol instant messenger. it will not ... ( more)
	vcformshape control (vcformshape) shape your forms around any image this little control gives a developer the ability to have a standard form shape to an image. in the screen shot to the right, you are actually seeing a form that has been shaped around some artistic image of pipes that i made. a button was added just so you can see it is actually a form. the contr... ( more)
	vcframe control (vcframe) basic frame control with more features. i made this by request for a person i met on vbcity. it is a basic frame control. however this frame has a few more features. for example, it has a picture property, properties to adjust the border's shadow and highlight colors, and it also does not... ( more)
	vcimploder control (vcimploder) add animated effects to your forms. this sounds like a really fancy name for something so simple. however, while it is simple, the effect it can give your applications is huge. this control is very basic. what it does is animate a form to give the impression is is shrinking into itself or growing out from it's center. to help imag... ( more)
	vclabel activex control (vclabel) label with formatting codes. the vclabel control is a simple control to be used as a label. the difference is that with supplying the caption some simple html like codes, you can control the color, bold, italics, underline, strikethrough of any word in the caption. enjoy.... ( more)
	vcmasked picture box control (vcmaskpicture) add transparent areas to your everyday picture box. the vcmaskpic control is a picturebox control that will allow you to assign a mask picture and mask color to use to cause areas of your image to become transparent. a very simple control to help those in quickly adding this ability to their programs.... ( more)
	vcmp3 player control (vcmp3 player control) add mp3 playback to your applications with ease. the vcmp3 player control was created to give developers a very simple and very small (136kb) control to allow mp3 playback in their applications. this control includes an internal playlist collection, the ability to load by file or folder (including recursive subfolder searching). sort and shuffle... ( more)
	vcpanel control (vcpanel) customizable container control the vcpanel control is a container control with more customization options for appearence. as a developer you can control the titlebar gradient colors, the backcolor, border color and forecolor. you can also include an icon for the title bar of the panel. the control also includes two methods (co... ( more)
	vcslide menu control (vcslide menu) mimic the xp side slide menu. this is my first stab at a sliding menu like the one found in windows xp. while the look and feel is not exactly like the one in xp, it is close. using the control you can create a menu array and dynamically create your menu with icons and mouse over highlighting. animation is taken care of by th... ( more)
	vcslider control (vcslider) a slider control with more options. my vcslider controls was made by request by a user. my vcslider control is a basic slider control however it allows you to change the image used for the slider as well as change the background color and line colors of the slide.... ( more)
	vcsubform control (vcsubform) put a form inside another form. ever wanted to show a form inside a form. well, not many people really do because for the most part, there is not really a need. even with that said, i made this control. what it allows you to do is place the control on a given form. then via a simple line of code, pass the controls addform meth... ( more)
	vctag control (vctag control) add user moveable tags to your applications. while working on one of my projects, i found the need to create tags (label like) functionality to a map. the tags needed to be editable, draggable and sizeable by the user. i started heading down a road of using control arrays of labels, textboxes and what not to dynamically create and load contr... ( more)
	vctray alert control (vctray alert) add msn type alerts to your application. a while back i made a tray alert control that i had available on my site. while it worked fine, i did feel that i could do better and more closely mimick the alerts by microsoft messenger. so i set off once again to build a new tray alert control. here now is my vctrayalert activex control. the ... ( more)
	vctricolor progressbar (vctriprogressbar) give your progress bar a new look this activex control will give you a new progress bar to use that allows you to define 3 colors for the bar (start, mid, end). as the progress bar gets filled, the control will fade from one color to the next giving a nice look to your progress bars. text can also be added to the progress bar.... ( more)
	web image/file controls (web image/file) add web based images to your forms...download files this download has two controls. my web image control and my web file control. both work very similar as far as coding, the web image control is just more specialized. first, the web file control will allow you to place it on any form (invisible at runtime) and provide it with a url to any file on... ( more)