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 ...

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.

Co-founder Alan Cooper created the visual programming language that was the foundation of Microsoft's influential Visual Basic software development tool, including the VBX interface for adding ...

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 a similar way, programming saw a paradigm shift from building software for simple ‘Disk Operating Systems’ to designing for object-oriented platforms and BASIC became obsolete.

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

Lua is one of a handful of visual coding languages that are helping kids try their hand at software coding amid a boom in online games and applications for devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

Software to be formally introduced later this year will link the Ruby programming language and the open source Ruby on Rails Web framework to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 application ...