By Joe Kunk 08/01/2012 A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this ...

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.

Available as a stand-alone download for use from Windows’ terminal or as part of the Visual Studio Code tools for Power Platform, it’s a relatively simple set of command line tools.

For TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, and Visual Basic, Visual Studio Code has superior language support. For the other 30-odd supported languages, Visual Studio Code has parity with Atom.

Visual Studio also makes it easier to debug your code, compile it into an application and distribute that application.

From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core.

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Many developers who need to run or terminate an application from Visual Basic 6.0 rely on shell commands. However, you can also accomplish this task by using API functions. Time to code Let’s ...

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language embedded in Microsoft Office that can be used to automate processes and build functions.