Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

How C# and Visual Basic handle characters and single-character strings is a bit inconsistent. There's no tidy solution, but it's something you do need to know.

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation ...

As Visual Basic morphs into an object-oriented language, programmers face serious retraining and code transition issues. Here's how they're coping.

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

C# is the future for .NET developers, so it's time to limit Visual Basic’s use to on-premises legacy systems In a series of blog posts last week, Microsoft detailed fundamental changes to how it ...

Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC ...

"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 ...

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