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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 ...

Mobilize.Net, an "automated modernization" specialist headed by a former Microsoft corporate VP, has upgraded its Visual Basic upgrade tool to target .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform ...

Two members of Microsoft's Windows Forms dev team appeared in a Channel 9 video on "Supporting VB.NET" in .NET 5," a task that in some ways poses "a huge challenge." Specifically, one such aspect is ...

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The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

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 ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 11, 2010 — Kicking off a global launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused events, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET ...