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 a ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE Programming Community index, the following are the top 10 programming ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

What are we going to do with all this Visual Basic? If you’re a project manager with a portfolio of Visual Basic applications to maintain, that’s no idle question. Microsoft’s newest version of its ...

If you're new to Visual Basic programming or looking for a primer on programming database applications with Visual Basic, then Murach's Visual Basic 6 is the book for you. Unlike other books, this one ...

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 Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 in April 2010, it marked the largest update to the Microsoft flagship IDE and coding framework since the .NET Framework ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.