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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 ...
When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC. Because of its graphical interface, VB became very popular, and after migrating to Visual Studio .NET in 1999, ...
Enhancements to both C# and Visual Basic reflect the team's commitment to co-evolution of functionality across both C# and Visual Basic languages. As my first On VB column coincides with the recent ...
Things don't look much brighter for the broader VB ecosystem. Even though VB.NET hit a new high in the TIOBE Index in 2018, Microsoft early this year declared "We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as ...
VB developers can easily deploy COM applications for test and measurement, as well as many other client-server design projects. Resources. Directory. Webinars. CAD Models. Video. Blogs. Advertise.
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 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 ...
Adding a Decimal in Visual Basic. ... VB has a single decimal variable type that uses 16 bytes of memory and handles up to 29 significant digits. Variable Declaration.
Another DECLINED UserVoice post asks Microsoft to "Provide a Visual Basic 6 Community edition - to allow free download of the VB6 programming language." "We have no plans to release a new incarnation ...