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 ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

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 ...

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 ...