In its day, circa 1991, Microsoft Visual Basic (aka VB) disrupted Windows development by making it possible for novices to drag and drop their way to runnable Windows applications built from forms ...

If you could peer inside the My.Forms feature, you might find Visual Basic adding parallel form access points for every Form-derived class you include in your application, as shown in Listing 1.

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. Time to code ...

You can use the 64-bit ActiveX controls in a Windows.Forms application, but there's a catch when it comes to compiling. Visual Studio is currently a 32-bit app and it looks for the 32-bit ActiveX ...

Microsoft hasn't released a fix for Visual Basic on Windows 10 version 1903, but it has added a note that a "solution will be available in late August". The update will be available through the ...

As the industry standard integrated development environment for any app, language, or platform, the regular retail price of $499 for Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows makes sense.

MONTREAL, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plotly today announced Plotly Studio™, an AI-native desktop application that automatically generates beautiful visual data apps in just two minutes ...

Microsoft Garage, an outlet for experimental projects at the company, is offering an app to help Visual Studio users prototype interfaces for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications for ...

Among the company's initiatives is an effort to upgrade the skills of Visual Basic developers to encompass the purer, object-oriented methods favored in the .NET space. Microsoft is billing Visual ...

Microsoft gave a sneak peek at what is to come in the next major version of its flagship toolset code-named Visual Studio 11, and said a beta of it and the .NET Framework 4.5 will ship on Feb. 29.

MONTREAL, June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plotly today announced Plotly Studio™, an AI-native desktop application that automatically generates beautiful visual data apps in just two minutes ...