This browser-based Basic emulator was written in JavaScript by Microsoft developer Nikko Strom in response to David Brin’s Salon.com article “Why Johnny Can’t Code.” Visual Basic 2010 Express.

See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario. By Joe Kunk; 08/01/2012; A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re working with Power Apps inside Visual Studio Code, open the built-in terminal to access the CLI from inside the editor. Launch it by typing pac at the command prompt initially to show ...

When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did. But we've gone backwards since then, and most users now seem unable or ...

Fortunately, Visual Basic can handle strings with true escape characters, albeit with the help of the .NET regular expression library. The Regex.Unescape method accepts a string with backslash-powered ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

It was supplanted by Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2002, but that version wasn't backwards-compatible and never enjoyed the same vocal popularity as VB6. While VB.NET continues ...