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How to get the list of Visual Basic Keywords

list of Visual Basic keywords (right-click to download)

list of Visual Basic statements (right-click to download)

A while ago one of my students asked me if it's possible to get a list of Visual Basic keywords. Surely enough I sent him to check MSDN CD we just got. He came back really fast - a corresponding topic was located at:

Visual Tools and Languages
- Visual Studio 6.0
  - Visual Basic 6.0
    - Product Documentation
      - Reference
        Language Reference
        Keywords

but there was no way to copy the list or even print it out.

Our next step was to go to MSDN on-line and copy and parse the HTML source of index page. Didn't work either - Select All/Copy resulted in few meaningless characters copied to Clipboard, viewing the document source showed that index was actually generated dynamically from xml document ("/library/deeptreeconfig.xml").
Fortunately, IE allows to view XML documents, so we quickly built the absolute path from relative ("http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/deeptreeconfig.xml") and the rest was easy:

In resulting document (cached) we located the node <TopXMLSrc> and loaded the next page (cached) off its value
Next we located the node pointing to "Visual Tools and Languages" and loaded corresponding document (cached)
Next goes "Visual Basic 6.0" (cached)
Followed by "Reference" (cached)
From here we finally were able to download "Keywords" (cached) and (just in case) "Statements" (cached), which had 2 more parts referred: "I-P" (cached) and "R-Z" (cached)
Then I wrote a simple VBScript parser and in a second we had both keywords and statements nicely formatted and saved to a text files

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