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.

It was a simple VBScript program that allowed 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov to grab 100 million plus credit card numbers from Target and Neiman Marcus stores. Those 100 million credit card holders are ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

Well, I didn't USED to be a novice. In fact, I have over 30 years of program development under my belt.<BR><BR>I worked mostly in legacy COBOL, C and C# back in DOS6 days, and most recently ...