A Visual Basic program is built up from standard building blocks. A solution comprises one or more projects. A project in turn can contain one or more assemblies. Each assembly is compiled from one or ...

This section introduces the typical Visual Basic program structure, provides a simple Visual Basic program, "Hello, World", and discusses Visual Basic code conventions. Code conventions are ...

Before discussing BASIC and Microsoft’s various versions of the language, I thought it would be fun to first examine how easy it is to recreate hello, world in Visual Basic, my favorite ...

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files.

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 ...

Many developers who need to run or terminate an application from Visual Basic 6.0 rely on shell commands. However, you can also accomplish this task by using API functions.

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 ...