Technically speaking, the only way to write Visual Basic programs is with Visual Basic. Any other program, even if it's syntactically compatabile like Envelop linked above, isn't VB. I imagine Envelop ...

To write error-free programs developers must remove bad logic from their code. Unfortunately bad logic is very hard to notice. Here comes Project Analyzer v10 to help. It scans Visual Basic code to ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

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 ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language ...