In-Depth Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. By ...

Murach's Visual Basic 6's hands-on examples is the only way to learn the programming language.

Code Focused What's New in Visual Basic 2010 With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual ...

How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of ...

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

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organization with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

C#’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds, while Visual Basic has slowly slipped down the charts, almost disappearing from the radar of popular programming query sites like Stack Overflow.

It was supplanted by Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2002, but that version wasn't backwards-compatible and never enjoyed the same vocal popularity as VB6. While VB.NET continues ...

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.

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organisation with an investment in Visual Basic code ...