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 ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The C# and Visual Basic access modifiers let you indicate the level of interpersonal relationships your type member can have. Whether they're Private, Public or something else, each modifier makes ...

Some of the applications made using Visual Basic 6 (VB6), the macros created with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), as well as the scripts or the apps made using Visual Basic Scripting Edition ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...