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 ...

It used to be that Windows Forms development for user interfaces was the VB programmer's bread and butter. In the MSDN article "Death of the Browser?," Billy Hollis opines that browser-based ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic "with a future" for all platforms. The "with a future" description refers to Microsoft's 2020 announcement ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...