The more savvy Visual Basic users fire it up to write saleable software and to turn out Visual Basic programming at work that lets them hold down decently paying jobs on the corporate scene. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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. The development ...

BASIC still lives on these days—itself modernized, with GOTO (mostly) banished—in the world of Microsoft Visual Basic, which many non-coder officefolk have used to kludge together apps for ...

Adding a Decimal in Visual Basic. Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal.

At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...