To understand why Visual Basic was such a sensation, consider again how horrible it was to create even the simplest application using the C programming language and the Windows API: The modern ...

And it’s still true today, as Visual Basic lives on in Visual Studio 2019, where it can be used to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Many VB programmers don't understand the graphics capabilities of Visual Basic when you use basic API calls. This (and a series of forthcoming tutorials) will explain the basics of getting and setting ...

Microsoft Visual Basic is a rich programming language that leverages every aspect of the .NET framework. With it you can write every type of application, from console apps to scalable web applications ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

Visual Basic, especially "classic" VB, attracted a loyal following, with many projects (like this from 2015) emerging over the years devoted to keeping it alive despite Microsoft having moved on in ...

Things don't look much brighter for the broader VB ecosystem. 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 ...