Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to the Visual Basic .Net programming language carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, ArtinSoft executive vice president, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.

From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 13, 2020, 4:42 a.m. PT ...

But the move to Visual Basic.Net is not merely a programming language upgrade; developers who have expertise in Visual Basic 6 will need to learn major new programming concepts.

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together SoftWIRE components.

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET.

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

How to Get Mouse Coordinates in Visual Basic. Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the ...

Diversity and Identity Even as Visual Basic and C# grow more alike, they're diversifying from their core as strongly and statically typed programming languages. The .NET Framework 4 introduced the ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...