Microsoft is ending support for the Visual Basic 6.0 integrated development environment. Jeff Nuckolls, a Microsoft blogger, in an April 3 post said that the IDE will no longer be supported as of ...

Turbo Pascal ‘s integrated development environment combined a simple text menu screen, Wordstar-like editor, the Pascal compiler, runtime library, run in memory and compile to disk.

After version 6 of the Visual Basic package, Microsoft instituted the Visual Basic integrated development environment into the Visual Studio suite.

Microsoft Visual Studio Requirements While you could use Notepad to create VB.NET apps, you'll have a much easier time using an Integrated Development Environment such as Visual Studio.

Microsoft's open-source integrated development environment (IDE), VS Code or Visual Studio Code, has become a hit with developers across the world, becoming the most popular development ...