Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the computer screen. Visual Basic developers have a ...

Low-code development tools like Microsoft’s Power Platform are more than a way for users to build the apps they need when they need them. They’re a way to rapidly building code that’s needed urgently.

In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

Ormec Inc., Rochester, N.Y., is making it easier to develop control software for PC-based motion systems. Its new MotionObjects ActiveX Control kit lets users develop software in Microsoft Visual ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition. Microsoft Visual Basic is a computer language developed to enable the creation of Windows applications.

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 ...

No, it is not recursive. It does however call a function from a control I am using that was written by someone else - the sgrid 2.0 for visual basic 6 from vbaccelerator. The more changes I try to ...

People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...

In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...