With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

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Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Launch and terminate applications in Visual Basic 6.0 Your email has been sent Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...