Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only n… ...

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month.

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 ...

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 ...

No Visual Basic support; Limited support for AppleScript and Automator; Our Verdict. It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade.

I just read Tim Patrick's Guest Opinion on renaming Visual Basic ["Basic Doesn't Fit VB.NET," January 2005]. I have been a VB user since the first beta of release 1.0, and I have written countless ...

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together SoftWIRE components.

TIOBE Index has released its list of top programming languages for December 2018 with a surprising finding that Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET is moving up the ranks.

You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro ...

Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to the Visual Basic .Net programming language carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, ArtinSoft executive vice president, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.