Common Controls

This article is based on Visual Basic 6. Find other Visual Basic 6 articles.

VB6 comes with several common controls libraries, the contents of which overlap between the VB5 and VB6 libraries. The VB5 versions are prefered if you want to use Windows XP visual theming, but not all controls are available.

Here is a brief summary:

Component	VB5	VB6
Common Controls
TabStrip	X	X
Toolbar	X	X
StatusBar	X	X
ProgressBar	X	X
TreeView	X	X
ListView	X	X
ImageList	X	X
Slider	X	X
ImageCombo		X
Common Controls 2
Animation	X	X
UpDown	X	X
MonthView		X
DTPicker		X
FlatScrollBar		X
Common Controls 3
CoolBar		X