Visual Basic 2005 is part of the Visual Studio 2005 platform, which is due to ship later this year. Developers, however, can use the refactoring plug-in with beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005.

Visual Studio 2005s online documentation includes extensive discussion of the transition from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic 2005—more than a little odd, considering that Visual Basic 6 was, in ...

But Visual Basic 2005 and Visual C++ 2005 are reborn. Microsoft also sneaked the functionality of Visual InterDev back into the toolset, with some Dreamweaver-like tweaks added.

It plans to introduce enhancements in the forthcoming edition of Visual Basic 2005 meant to "bring back" some ease-of-use features that appeal to VB developers, according to S. "Soma" Somasegar ...

I just read Tim Patrick's Guest Opinion on renaming Visual Basic ["Basic Doesn't Fit VB.NET," January 2005]. I have been a VB user since the first beta of release 1.0, and I have written countless ...

February 2005 will mark 15 years of Basic Pro, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and Visual Studio Magazine. It's astonishing how fast time flies and how quickly things change. Visual Basic 1.0 ...

REDMOND, Wash. — May 10, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. and Developer Express Inc. today announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic® 2005, a no-cost plug-in that brings refactoring to Microsoft® ...

More and more of the Visual Studio Team System will find its way into Visual Studio 2005 in future releases, sources said. /zimages/4/28571.gif For more on Visual Studio Team System, click here.

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. has yet to release a feature-complete beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 development tools. But at last week’s VSLive conference in Orlando, it announced a refresh ...

“I’m sorry that these issues made it to production and degraded’the performance of the IDE,” said Microsoft’s Chris Mayo, Visual Basic performance manager at Microsoft, in a memo cited in Vick’s blog.