The #VisualBasic F.A.Q. is the result of a collaborative effort between four VB professionals in an attempt to provide an information packed reference material for the programming language and IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel we all use. The goal for it is to provide a cornucopia of information and answers on many of the issues/questions that routinely arise as a VB programmer and to introduce people to IRC and #VisualBasic.

This web site has been kind enough to offer to host one of the official distribution sites for this F.A.Q. and in doing so is helping to provide the Visual Basic developers around the world with information contained within.

We would like to express our gratitude to this site and the many others that are helping to distribute this F.A.Q. We would also like to express our thanks to our families, the #VisualBasic IRC Channel, and to the readers of this F.A.Q. for their continued support.

- The Authors,
Dave Sherman, Jim Houghtaling, Charles Haeberle, and Guy Thompson

We currently offer the FAQ in two versions, a HTML document and a Word97 document. While we have tried to keep the conversion as accurate as possible we did reach some brick walls when it came to the formatting capabilities of HTML. Therefore we strongly urge you to use the Word97 version if at all possible, but still provide the HTML version for those who wish to use it instead. The only major difference is much of the source code in the FAQ will be a little distorted in the HTML version but it is still quite readable/usable.

You have the option to

• View this document as HTML (View Document)
• Download a Word 97 version of the document. The "Download Document" is a self-extracting executable.
• If you do not have Word 97 installed you can either click the "View Document" or install the Word 97 document viewer by clicking "Download Document Viewer".