You can drag and drop ActiveX controls from a control palette to create your user interface. Forms-based property sheets make it even easier to customize your user interface without coding. We didn't encounter any stability problems while testing Visual Basic 5 Control Creation Edition. Features You'll find a full-featured integrated development environment in this program. It comes with an editor, debugger, user-interface tools, an ActiveX control wizard for defining your control's properties and events, and much more.
Online documentation is fairly comprehensive and makes for a very good reference.
However, if you don't already kno w Visual Basic, we do suggest that you pick up a book on the language to help facilitate your learning. This product is free. You will need to be a member of the Site Builder Network, which you can join for free at the Web site, before downloading the product. This product requires a 486 or higher processor running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 or later. Installed, it takes up about 10MB of disk space, but during installation you will need at least 20MB of free disk space.