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 ...

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 ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Microsoft's .NET computing framework stands poised to help you speed test application development. With Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft's .NET programming package), you can write distributed ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files. An ...

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 ...

With its attention focused on MS-DOS, Microsoft were slow to see the problems with BASIC, and that a core language devised in 1964 just wasn't up to the challenges of 80's computing. This started to ...

If you want to enable or disable Trust access to Visual Basic Project in Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., you can do so with the help of the in-built option, Local Group Policy ...