Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

As Microsoft explained at the time, it was leading with C# for cloud, mobile and development on non-Windows platforms, whereas the focus for Visual Basic would be on Windows "with an emphasis on ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know ... while Visual Basic .Net would focus on Windows desktop development. The new strategy caused angst among Visual Basic ...

Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome Windows Forms Designer is even complete -- almost. While .NET 5 and VS 2019 ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language ... to coding simple software for Windows. In a blog post last month ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages ... The change in plans for Visual Basic development makes a lot of sense, but many Windows developers, and ...

The programming ... The advent of Visual Basic made it easy for developers to include GUIs in their software. As a result, GUI-equipped software increased explosively, and Windows expanded its ...