Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

Visual Basic 2010 adds late-binding support to the Dynamic Language Runtime, which offers access to objects from dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby. Simply create an instance to the ...

In Visual Basic it is customary to use the declarative event handling syntax. The WithEvents keyword is used on a field to indicate that event handlers should be automatically attached and ...

How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. 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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft continues to build on those attributes with the release of Visual Basic 10. The C# and Visual Basic language teams were merged in 2008 and Visual Basic 2010 represents the first release of ...