Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a bit long in the tooth compared to newer languages like Java, PHP, or Apple’s six-month-old Swift.

The Goto statement in both Visual Basic and C# seems like an amazing tool for getting out of sticky code blocks. But it can also get you into sticky blocks, at least in Visual Basic. Consider this ...

Visual Basic 2010 auto-implemented properties may be initialized to a default value with the "= value" syntax (see Listing 2). The compiler automatically generates a private backing field with the ...

As with any variable in Visual Basic, you declare a decimal type before you use it. To declare the variable, you use the "Dim" statement followed by the variable's name and the words "as decimal ...