Microsoft championed BASIC far past the point that its competitors did, and it even proved some wrong about this dated language with the blockbuster release of Visual Basic in 1991. But as the 90s ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know ... while Visual Basic .Net would focus on Windows desktop development. The new strategy caused angst among Visual Basic ...

Never have so many been so outraged by so little. But don't listen to the haters. Notepad is better than its ever been.

As Microsoft explained at the time, it was leading with C# for cloud, mobile and development on non-Windows platforms, whereas the focus for Visual Basic would be on Windows "with an emphasis on ...

Windows APIs are dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that are part of the Windows operating system. You use them to perform tasks when it is difficult to write equivalent ...

Windows API calls were an important part of Visual Basic programming in the past, but are seldom necessary with Visual Basic .NET. Whenever possible, you should use managed code from the .NET ...

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features ... that allows building software for not only Windows, but also Mac and Linux.

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

There is a certain section of users as well as developers that have a sense of fear about whether Windows 11 will support the legacy apps and technologies, left behind or not. With Visual Basic being ...