In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

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 long ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We’ll walk you through the simple API steps to add this functionality ...

The Visual Basic 6 language uses file handlers to write data to a CSV file, which is a text file that separates values using the comma character. The CSV file format lets you export and import data ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...