VBasic Utility Library

The VBasic Utility Library is a collection of all freely distributable (Public Domain, freeware, shareware, contribution requested, demo code, etc.) source code, hundreds of VBXes, utilities, applications, etc. for Visual Basic developers. The collection is available on CD-ROM or 1.44MB diskettes. A directory database accompanying the library is a dBASE compatible .DBF file with DOS and Windows search programs. The database also lists all existing commercial products, for one stop shopping for all existing Visual Basic tools. The library won the Visual Basic Programmer's Journal 1994 "Readers' Choice" award and VBxtra's "Thunderbolt" award. It is EMS's best selling library. The directory database and library are updated at least every two months. Ordering information.

ZIPed text file listing all Public Domain and Shareware Visual Basic products found on BBSes in the USA , organized by type, with release date and short description can be found as VBU19.ZIP on many BBSes and SimTel mirrors. EMS also produces a directory of all Visual Basic tool producers, with name, address, phone, fax, email, web, BBS, 800, etc. information.

The following are counts of Public Domain, Shareware and free products in the VBasic Utility Library:

• Business - 4
• Buttons - 19
• Calculator - 18
• Calendar - 26
• Client/Server - 4
• Clock - 9
• Clock / Fonts - 1
• Communications - 47
• Custom Control - 206
• Data Access - 34
• Database - 74
• DDE - 5
• Desktop - 19
• Device Control - 5
• Disk Utility - 12
• DLL - Communicatio - 4
• DLL - Database - 4
• DLL - General - 41
• DLL - Graphics - 14
• DLL - Sound - 1
• DLL Interface - 6
• Educational - 5
• Entertainment - 2
• Envelopes - 3
• File Compression - 7
• File Finder - 2
• File Management - 11
• Finance - 5
• Fonts - 14
• Form - 116
• Game - 29
• General - 12
• Graphics - 95
• Help - 60
• Icon Utility - 16
• Input Routines - 6
• Inspiration - 2
• Internationalizatn - 2
• Language Extension - 40
• Listbox - 31
• Mail - 1
• Mail List - 1
• Menu - 9
• Misc. - 23
• Pen Windows - 1
• Printer - 44
• Productivity - 10
• Prog. - Sound - 3
• Prog. - Sys. Util. - 6
• Program Control - 25
• Program Utility - 214
• Programming - 178
• Programming Demo - 5
• Reference - 41
• Run Time Library - 6
• Science - 1
• Security - 2
• Setup - 18
• Sound - 21
• Special - 16
• Spellcheck - 2
• System Utility - 43
• Text - 45
• Timer - 2

Total PD/Shareware files in library: 1728
Total 1.44MB disks in Library: 132
Total bytes in library: 221133537