That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

How to Get Mouse Coordinates in Visual Basic. Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the ...

The original C language was a great programming tool. Created back in the early 1970s, it remains one of the most influential computer languages more than four decades later. As a .NET developer, you ...

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and ...

People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...

Microsoft is currently investigating a new known Windows issue originating from a recently installed cumulative update, a bug that may cause some VB6, VBA, and VBScript apps to stop responding and ...