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.

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features ... thanks to positive word of mouth. Similarly, Visual Studio Code— the open source version ...

Methods and properties of those objects form the base stone of Word automation. A sample Visual Basic program exemplifies the automation of routine procedures, such as starting Word, adding, saving ...

Next you order Visual Basic to create an executable program from your creation and ... in those lines would tell a computer to print the words in the quotation marks (in line 20) 1 million times.

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 ...

Even the word “visual” in Visual Basic is telling: The biggest change that Visual Basic brought to programming was the idea that the elements of a Windows application–the windows ...

This example shows how to use a LINQ query to count the occurrences of a specified word in a string. Note that to perform the count, first the xref:System.String.Split%2A method is called to create an ...

This book is intended for school students and others learning to program in Visual Basic. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming, electronics, Visual Basic or the Visual Studio environment.