Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

Looping is a powerful technique that enables you to write tighter code. Tighter code is smaller, more efficient, and usually—but not always—more readable. As a developer, you will often encounter ...

Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the computer screen. Visual Basic developers have a ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

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 ...

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

Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a ...

Syntax highlighting and auto-complete with IntelliSense. Smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. It is Extensible and customizable, supports Git commands ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...