A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was ...

From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 13, 2020, 4:42 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

Nothing like having your app generate automated e-mail notices to impress people. It's easy when you use Outlook and Visual Basic. These steps guide you through the process.

Even though VB.NET hit a new high in the TIOBE Index in 2018, Microsoft early this year declared " We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as a Language." Indeed, the latest TIOBE Index shows that ...

Visual Basic, just like Visual Studio, will be skipping directly from version 12 to version 14. Though many of these features are also new to C#, there are quite a few enhancements meant ...

For a Visual Basic implementation, create a View folder named MailerBase to hold all e-mail views to be used with MvcMailer. Use the Session object -- rather than the Model or ViewBag objects -- to ...

Programmers who started with Basic generally moved on to languages such as Pascal or C, or Perl or PHP, and then perhaps Java. (Or to Microsoft Visual Basic, which isn't really Basic.) That's fine.