Visual Basic and C# are like two peas in a programming pod. Both languages use the .NET Framework as the foundation for data and code processing, so naturally there's a lot of overlap in how they ...

I spent my first years of .NET experience developing desktop Windows Forms applications. Eventually I was asked to architect and develop a major ASP.NET application to provide time card services for ...

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 ...

While using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications on Excel, if you get Run-time error, Class not registered, here is how you can fix the issue. It is pretty common when there are some issues with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...