Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

Using some relatively simple VB coding syntax, you can design a command button or other control option to create a new workbook and export data to it for use in Excel. Launch Visual Basic 6 or ...

Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. ... VB ...

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 ...

Launch Visual Basic or Visual Basic Express on your computer. Open the .NET project file where you want to import the existing Excel macro code. Click the "Project" link on the menu bar, then "Add ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its ...