Visual Basic and C# are like two peas in a programming pod. Both languages use the .NET Framework as the foundation for data and code processing, so naturally there's a lot of overlap in how they ...

Sometimes you have to repeatedly convert one of your custom classes into something else. In Visual Basic, your conversions come in two types: Widening conversions and narrowing conversions. In a ...

Not a month goes by without Microsoft rebranding something. Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Codespaces. It’s still the same remote development tool, though: Visual Studio, cloud-hosted ...

About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives ...

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 ...