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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.