Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

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

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 ...

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

The more savvy Visual Basic users fire it up to write saleable software and to turn out Visual Basic programming at work that lets them hold down decently paying jobs on the corporate scene.

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-Depth Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. By ...

Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a button or text label to switch to a different spreadsheet.

How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of ...

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in ...