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 ...

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, brackets ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Q–I used to like to write my own programs on MS-DOS-based computers using the QBasic programming language built into the operating system. I did this for the challenge rather than because I needed ...

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. In the ...

At a developer conference next week, Microsoft will hand out a "technology preview" of the development tool as well as release new software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

I was recently trudging along a trail to fish for some trout in a remote Northwest Montana mountain lake when I met a guy coming out. Whereas I was gasping up the rocky path in military surplus camo ...