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 ...

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Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

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 ...

Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...