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 ...

With Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft introduced a new, object-oriented method for working with files. ... Listing A shows the output of our sample code. Reading from a text file ...

SoftWIRE is a graphical programming add-in for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 that even inexperienced programmers can use to build useful Windows applications without writing a single line of code.

Hi Folks,Is there any way we can print files(.doc,.xls files) using Visual Basic code? What I intend to do is this (as an example):create a command button, and under its click event, put a code ...

These local variables, when defined within a block statement, behave differently between the languages, depending on how they're declared. Consider the identical chunks of C# and Visual Basic code in ...

Out of the box, C# developers have always had more refactoring support (encapsulating fields, for example) than Visual Basic developers. Now Visual Basic 14 developers get parity: select some code, ...

For example, if you've named the second sheet in your workbook "Inventory," the Project Explorer will list it as "Sheet2 (Inventory)." Its name is "Sheet2." Add the following line of code to the ...

Excel macros use Visual Basic code to perform functions unavailable through the program's graphical controls. For example, macros can extract data from a sheet, perform string operations on them ...