• Crystal Reports is shipped and installed as part of the VB installation package except in VB6. This can be found in \common\tools\vb\crysrep\ double click on crystl32.exe to install. Creating a Report VB5 or less To access the Crystal Report Designer, select the Report Designer from the Add-In menu in the VB environment VB6 To access the Crystal Report Designer, a Start menu group and shortcut will have been automatically created.

• Using the Dialog Automation Object vs. the Common Dialog Control
  One tool included on VB's CD is the Microsoft Dialog Automation Objects component. This component provides the common dialog functionality without requiring that you place a control on a form.

  To incorporate this object in your application, you first need to install it on your computer:

  Copy DLGOBJS.DLL from VB98\Wizards\PDWizard to your \Windows\System directory (or \System32 directory on Windows NT).

  Register the design time license by merging the Registry file DLGOBJS.REG into your registry.
  

  • Under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98, right click on \Tools\Unsupprt\DlgObj\DLGOBJS.REG and choose 'Merge'

  • Under Windows NT 3.51, copy \Tools\Unsupprt\DlgObj\DLGOBJS.REG to your hard drive and merge it into the registry using RegEdt32.Exe

  Register DLGOBJS.DLL by using RegSvr32.Exe found in c:\\windows\system\ Click Start, Select Run, next type the folling in the Open text box

  c:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe dlgobjs.dll

  Once the DLL is registered, select "Microsoft Dialog Automation Objects" in the Project|References Dialog in Visual Basic.

• Image Editor is a simple application that you can use to create or modify custom icons, bitmaps, and cursor to use within your applications. To install the Image Editor on your computer you only need to copy to your Hard Drive the files imagedit.exe and imagedit.hlp from \common\tools\vb\imagedit\ located on the VB installation CD.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\6.0\UI

    And

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Visual Basic\6.0\Dock