Comments on: How to create a VB6 console program

By: Amaro

Amaro — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:20:47 +0000

Thank you, though I’m an experienced VB programmer I also had to use C/C++ to have this job accomplished. Great job!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:38:42 +0000

Excellent article! I needed a “simple” File-Open dialog which is not simple at all when it comes to including in a distro (CommonDialog requires an OCX which only comes with a Visual Studio distro). I found a link on usoft’s support site which got the program built, BUT I needed the other half, which was to allow it to be called as a command and output to stdout. Your article did both these – thanks!

By: Greenland

Greenland — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:28:58 +0000

Thank you, very useful advice. So I didn’t have to reinvent the wheel.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:21:30 +0000

Wow, great article. Thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of headaches!

By: Videogamer

Videogamer — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:23:42 +0000

In Visual C++ the default way of making programs (despite being “Visual”) IS through the command line. I HATE API programing for VB. I like simple commands like
text1.text=”this is a test”
I wish MORE commands were standard (not API) commands, because I HATE having to write out non-intuitive delarations in my code to acomplish a seamingly simple task. And I wen I found this article, I was HOPING for a SIMPLE way (no API calls or other crap) of acheaving a command line application. But your best answer involves doing FOUR WHOLE DIFFERENT STEPS just to set it up. And that is stuff that has to be done BEFORE writing the actual program. I was HOPING that just switching to Sub Main (instead of Form1) for starting the program in console mode would work. I tried that but it didn’t work, so I was hoping for another VERY easy solution. But you just gave me the worlds most convoluted programing crap EVER! The ONLY reason I like VB more than C++, is because it is an overall easier programing language to use. However, C++ is MUCH better than VB for command line apps. And I still can’t get over the thought that there MUST be SOME easier way (maybe installing a typelib or dll file) that would make it VERY easy to write a command line app in VB.