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This sample Add-In demonstrates how to write an Add-In for Visual Basic 6.0. It provides some of the functionality you will find in our VBCodeHelper product that can be found at http://www.vbcodehelper.com.

The zip file contains two implementations of the Rijndael AES Block Cipher based on the C code version published by Mike Scott. One is a VB 6.0 Class, the other a VBScript ASP version, both come with some test code that shows how to use them. Updated 03-Apr-2001 with two new methods and demo code that shows how to encrypt/decrypt strings. Updated 19-Apr-2001 to fix bug with 256 bit keys.

The zip file contains both VB6 and ASP (VBScript) versions of code for generating an MD5 'digest' or 'signature' of a string. In addition, a JavaScript version has now been included thanks to Enrico Mosanghini. The MD5 algorithm is one of the industry standard methods for generating digital signatures. It is generically known as a digest, digital signature, one-way encryption, hash or checksum algorithm. A common use for MD5 is for password encryption as it is one-way in nature, that does not mean that your passwords are not free from a dictionary attack.

The zip file contains a C# implementation of the Rijndael AES Block Cipher based on the C code version published by Mike Scott.

The zip file contains both VB6 and ASP (VBScript) versions of code for generating an MD5 'digest' or 'signature' of a string. In addition, a JavaScript version has now been included thanks to Enrico Mosanghini. The MD5 algorithm is one of the industry standard methods for generating digital signatures. It is generically known as a digest, digital signature, one-way encryption, hash or checksum algorithm. A common use for MD5 is for password encryption as it is one-way in nature, that does not mean that your passwords are not free from a dictionary attack.

The zip file contains both VB6 and ASP (VBScript) versions of code for generating a SHA-256 'digest' or 'signature' of a string. The SHA-256 algorithm is one of the industry standard methods for generating digital signatures. It is generically known as a digest, digital signature, one-way encryption, hash or checksum algorithm. A common use for SHA-256 is for password encryption as it is one-way in nature, that does not mean that your passwords are not free from a dictionary attack.

FrezCrypto is an ActiveX DLL component that wraps the Microsoft CryptoAPI and provides the user with methods to encrypt or decrypt strings. The user has the option of Block (RC2) or Stream (RC4) encryption. The encrypted data can be returned (or supplied for decryption) either as a string (complete with all manner of control characters) or converted to a hex format where each character is converted to the hex of its ascii value. The download contains the DLL, the Visual Basic code for the DLL, and some Visual Basic code that exercises the methods and shows how it maybe used.

Follow this link for a FAQ on FrezCrypto

Zlib Wrapper is a Visual Basic module and test harness that wraps the Zlib DLL as provided at the following web site; http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
The Zlib library is free and available for a number of different platforms, it provides a lossless compression routine and is useful for large strings containing duplicate data to some extent, for instance XML documents.

The string sort routines are contained in a Visual Basic module. The module includes algorithms for Quick Sort, Merge Sort, Insert Sort and Selection Sort. However, it is recommended that you use Quick Sort all the time as this 'non-standard' routine delegates to Insert Sort for small arrays and chunks.

Routines for path manipulation using the shlwapi.dll type library that comes with Internet Explorer. Comes complete with test harness.

GetRelativePath demonstrates when given a directory path and a file path how to return the relative path from the directory to the file.

GetCompactPath demonstartes how to compact a long path name down into a small space in order to display it effectively in, say, a small text box.

An application that will do a smart search of the INTERNIC and NOMINET registrars for available .COM and .CO.UK domain names. The code could easily be extended to search other domains.

The included classes and test form demonstrate three different methods on how you can generate license keys (such as the CD keys on the case of most Microsoft software) and test their validity for your applications.

Method 1: A 17 character numeric key. Simple technique, but could be guessed using a brute force attack.

Method 2: Generates a 25 character alpha-numeric key, the first 9 characters are completely random, the next 16 are based on an MD5 digest of the first 9 random characters plus an application specific string. 35,184,372,088,832 different possible keys for an application, extremely difficult to crack or guess.

Method 3: Generates a 16 character alpha-numeric key based on an MD5 digest of a supplied registered user name and an application specific string. Generates a key that is extremely difficult to crack where you know the name of the registered user.

This module contains two procedures; SaveStringSetting and GetStringSetting. These procedures can be used as replacements for VB's SaveSetting and GetSetting so that your data is written to the more useful 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE' rather than the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings' key.

This is a replacement for VB's standard MsgBox so that you can have a message box that is in the same style as the rest of your application (i.e. font size, colour, button size). It has an identical interface to VB's own MsgBox and so can be easily integrated into existing applications.

It also allows you to have non-standard message boxes by defining your own captions for buttons. There is an example that demonstrates displaying errors and including a 'Copy' button that copies the text to the clipboard so the user can paste the message into an email or document.