Visual Basic .NET continues in the great tradition that Visual Basic began more than 10 years ago. It makes developing Windows applications easy and quick. An event-driven variation of the original ...

Many now-aging cub developers (including this one) cut their programming teeth on BASIC-derived languages and tooling, such as GW-BASIC that shipped with 5-1/4-inch floppy disks for the MS-DOS ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

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.

Microsoft and GitHub are coming out with tools that will let people collaborate on code instead of just sharing screens or working separately.

Microsoft plans to provide programmers with an interim version of its Visual Studio 2005 development tool and to release its server-based speech software next week.

In addition to making the process of writing code a simple matter of dragging and dropping icons, Visual Basic turns out software that uses the same slick graphical user interface used by Windows 98.

Visual Basic and Electrical Diagrams Bob is the programmer in a tiny dev shop called CMH Software Inc. near the small town of Libby, specializing in electrical design and training software.

Microsoft plans to provide programmers with an interim version of its Visual Studio 2005 development tool and to release its server-based speech software next week.