Basically, moving from one compiler/language to another is a real pain. Most books either expect you to be a beginner with no previous knowledge, or they assume a full working knowledge.

This page is for people who are comfortable with one language and want to learn another.

Comments	// /* .. */
Data Types	int long string
Custom Data Types	Type TCustom ... End Type
Data Conversion	Convert a variable to a different type
Type Casting	Force the program to treat a variable as a different type
Pointers	Getting the address of a variable
Arrays	a(i), a[i]
Flow Control	If .. Then .. Else - Case - While
Catching Errors	How to trap errors so that your program won't crash
String Functions	compare copy substring
CR/LF	How to add CR/LF to a string
Functions and Subroutines
Objects
With	A shortcut for accessing objects
Program Exit	Exiting the Program
Naming Conventions	Some ideas on how to name variables
Elements	Old - do not use
Blank Template	Used to create new pages with separate VB, Delphi, C++, and Windows API sections

Include Source
Include Library	Pre-compiled files

DOS Keyboard Emulation	Send Keystrokes to an MS DOS application in order to emulate a person typing at the keyboard.
DOS Screen Capture	Capture a DOS screen as text
Form Display	Displaying a second form
Passing Parameters	Once a second form is displayed, this covers how to pass parameters to and from it
Printing	How to print
File I/0	Working with files, including how to Open and test the existance of files.
Deployment	How to distribute your application
Copy To Clipboard	How to copy the command-line paramters to the clipboard.
Create a Directory	How to create a directory.
Serial I/O	How to read and write the Com Ports
Joysticks	How to read a Joystick
Windows Registry	Accessing the Registry
Application Parameters	How to customize your application using INI files, Command-Line parameters, and the Windows Registry
MultiMedia	How to record and play sounds
Sleep	How to pause your program
Execute/Shell	How to get one program to start another.
TCP/IP	How to provide client/server communications via TCP/IP

Form Controls	UIEdit Where the user types data UIMemo This allows the user to enter several lines of data - 61,725 bytes max UIRichEdit Similar to UIMemo - plus, allows font properties to be set per character, files can be > 500 K UIPickList aka ComboBox and Dropdown Pick List UIButton Includes regular buttons and toggle buttons UIRadioButtons   Select one of several options
Dialog Boxes	Displaying a standard Windows Dialog/Message Box
Menus	Creating hierarchical Menus
Tool Bars	Creating GUI Tool Bars
Object Properties	Setting GUI object properties
TaskBar	How to control whether a window appears in the TaskBar
ScrollBars	Notes on ScrollBars
StatusBars	Notes on StatusBars
Windows API	Compares the syntax used to define an API/DLL entry point
Mouse Icons	Related notes
Colors	The constants are very application, and version, sensitive.
Pop-up Menus	In Windows, when you right click, a context sensitive pop-up menu should appear. This is easy in Delphi, very clumsy in VB 6.0.
Re-Size Apps	When you manually change the size of a form, you probably want display windows to stretch and other controls to move.
Bitmaps	How to display Bitmaps
Keyboard Input	How to limit what gets typed
Tab Controls	These allow you to increase the number of controls on a form without having to use scroll bars.

Console I/O	Communicating with the user (C++ only)
DOS Mouse I/O	How to interface a DOS application with a mouse using interrupt 0x33
File I/O	Examples of using fstream to read a file. (C++ only)
Console C++	Some of the compatibility problems compiling C++ console (text only) applications that you might find in a first year course.

VisualBasic	Microsoft Basic for Windows 95
Delphi	Borland/Inprise Pascal for Windows 95
C++ Builder	Borland/Inprise 32-bit C++ for Windows 95 systems
FileSizes	Comparison of the sizes of various executables.
Console C++	Some of the compatibility problems compiling C++ console (text only) applications that you might find in a first year course.
Borland C++	Borland/Inprise 16-bit C++ for DOS and Windows 3.1 systems
MS Visual C++	Watch out, MFC causes Dr. Watson errors!
Flash	Adobe Flash has become a major cross platform development system. Programming is via ActionScript 3.0 - a c-like language (actually based on javascript)
PowerBuilder 6.0	Just a few notes
MS Access 97	Just a few notes
Debug Tools	Various programs which are useful in finding problems.
Assembly	How to write Windows programs in assembly language.
.net	.net is Microsofts replacement for VisualBasic, VisualC++, and several other languages.
Pocket PC	Symbol Pocket PC issues including Mobile systems & Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++
DDK	The Windows DDK (Driver Development Kit) is now available for free. Full installation requires 200 MB.
Javascript	There are a number of excellent Javascript Manuals online, but they are a little weak on truely useful examples. These pages should help to fill that gap.
Java	Notes on using Java/JDK 1.1 (Interpretted C++ with a pseudo-standard GUI)
Perl	Full on-line Perl man pages (Perl is used for cgi programs on unix)
Acrobat	Adobe suggests that Acrobat be used to develop interactive forms ... be careful
SQL	SQL is used to retrieve data from databases
DLL Hell	This is where loading one program breaks another program. The primary cause is shared DLLs (common control) and runtimes (VisualBasic, Visual C++, MFC).
Databases	Additional information specifically related to Database Development. This contains a lot of Delphi and MS Access info.

Visual Basic 6.0 comes with MSDN documentaion stored in compiled html files - *.chm which opens in HH.exe. (When running HH.exe, if you right click and select view source, you will see regular html source code including a lot of Object and JavaScript code.) One or more *.cli (compiled html index) files may be associated with each *.chm file. In order to use the help, MSDN CD #2 needs to be continuously available. When the searches are not limited to a single language, there is no way to know which language a specific example belongs to. For instance, VB and FoxPro look similar, as do C++ and Java. This is very confusing.

Loading VB 6.0 loads IE 4.7, there is no choice. Some VB 6.0 programs that you write require that you distribute IE 4.7, otherwise, your programs won't work.

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Moving From VB to Delphi: A technical discussion

This is a good Borland white paper comparing and contrasting the 2 languages.

How to automatically clean tempory files.

syntax across languages

This resource contains many more languages, but no examples.

URL: http:// mc-computing.com / Languages / index.html