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 ...

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' ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

While using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications on Excel, if you get Run-time error, Class not registered, here is how you can fix the issue. It is pretty common when there are some issues with ...

Leverage your experience in Visual Basic. Port your code to REALbasic where you can compile your applications for Linux, Mac OS X and all 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...