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, VB 6. ...

The update, Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 9.3 (VBUC), has UI targeting options for the latest .NET versions, .NET 5 and .NET 6, for both C# and VB.NET. "This means VB.NET developers can keep using VB ...

Visual Basic and C#: A new divergence is coming. With last week’s announcement, that co-evolution is gone. Microsoft will let the two languages go different ways, starting with the soon-to-be ...

Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...

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 ...

As Visual Basic morphs into an object-oriented language, programmers face serious retraining and code transition issues. Here's how they're coping.

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 ... This means that ...

Microsoft promised this week to restore support for Visual Basic for Applications to a future version of its Office suite. But the lack of VBA support in Office 2008 is only one problem for Mac ...

How to install Visual Basic 6 on Windows 11 Open the installation folder and look for the configuration file named SETUPWIZ.

In North America most Visual Basic developers continued to use VB6 and older versions — 45 percent of all North American developers, compared with 34 percent for Visual Basic.Net.

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 ...