Until today, Microsoft's advice to developers interested in writing Windows Phone 7 applications was to use C#, Silverlight or XNA. But on September 23, Microsoft officials said they'd be adding ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

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With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

In our continuing series on programming languges, we look at the new kid on the block, Microsoft Visual Basic. The IT scene being a vibrant one, Microsoft wants to have a hand in everything. Microsoft ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...

Visual Basic 5.0 Intensive Certification Preparation is run by JB International. It is a five-day course for people with very little knowledge of Visual Basic and costs #1,249. The student Paulette ...