Microsoft announced Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) at Wednesday's PDC keynote. VSTA is a .NET version of its Microsoft's application scripting tool, Visual Basic for Applications, the ...

The software giant unveils Visual Studio for Applications technology aimed at developers who build Web services that can be customized. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

If programming or scripting in general scares you, you don't need to worry either. You don't need to be a programming wizard ...

Application developers working with Microsoft Office can launch one Office product from within another. For instance, if you or one of your business' programmers uses Visual Basic for Applications' ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for ...

Microsoft has fired its first .Net volley in the new year. On Tuesday at the VSLive developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft (msft) is slated to take the wraps off its latest programming ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

How to create a self-signed digital certificate for VBA macros in Office 365 Your email has been sent Macros in Microsoft Office are blocked for security reasons, but ...

Some of the applications made using Visual Basic 6 (VB6), the macros created with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), as well as the scripts or the apps made using Visual Basic Scripting Edition ...