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 ...

Visual Basic was the right tool at the right time, and it was everything that Windows API development was not: Easy, visual, and fun.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

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 ...

It is essentially a BASIC programming language that can be used to develop Windows applications. It makes the job easy as Visual Basic provides a Graphic User Interface, or GUI, allowing programs to ...