Visual Basic, which comes in a $99 standard version and a $400 professional edition, reminds me of those ads at the back of comic books advertising mail-order shorthand courses: ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 13, 2020, 4:42 a.m. PT ...

Visual Basic is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language. According to TIOBE, the reason why its rise is surprising is because not many professional software developers pay a lot of ...

If you're new to Visual Basic programming or looking for a primer on programming database applications with Visual Basic, then Murach's Visual Basic 6 is the book for you. Unlike other books, this ...

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

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 ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Offered as a free download, Visual Basic 2010 Express is the only version of Basic that the company now ships. At one point, Microsoft had been pushing the Kid’s Programming Language, but the ...

Even as Visual Basic and C# grow more alike, they're diversifying from their core as strongly and statically typed programming languages. The .NET Framework 4 introduced the Dynamic Language Runtime ...