But lost in this noise is a far more important piece of news: Visual Basic has received a complete overhaul. This article takes a look at the major changes introduced with VB.NET.

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 ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Mobilize.Net has updated its Visual Basic migration tool to support .NET 6. The firm specializes in migration software, with offerings for WinForms-to-web/cloud, VB6-to-.NET, Silverlight-to-HTML and ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Given the myriad development environments available today (C, C#, C++, Visual Basic, VB.Net, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, etc.) software complexity can prove to be a major barrier to productivity.

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.

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET V B.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET ...

For now we’re going to focus on where VB continues to supported by Microsoft. Visual Basic 16.9 Language Features The first VB 16.9 feature is support for Default Interface Methods.

When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC. Because of its graphical interface, VB became very popular, and after migrating to Visual Studio .NET in 1999, VB 6. ...