Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

FWIW my Visual Basic runs fine on WIN2K. Version is 8464 Retail 6.0.8495 SP3. Looks like latest update was 5/10/1999. The service pack came as a separate CD in the package when I bought the product 15 ...

I spent most of the weekend inside the bowels of my Visual Basic dotNet monstrosity courtesy of the VS2005 IDE debugger. But I got it done. Step-step-step. I think my F8 key may have gone flat. I do ...

"I think a lot of this is community driven, more than people realize," Lhotka says, noting that the Visual Basic and C# communities each worked to gain powerful features found in the other language.