Most programmers compile their VB programs using the default advanced compiler settings. If you know about these settings, you may be able to change them to improve the performance of your compiled ...

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. My very first learning experience ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

Issues with use of Microsoft’s Visual Basic 2005 compiler in large projects have prompted the company to release a QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) update to address major problems. The compiler was ...

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The VB and C# languages have a lot in common, and developers who specialize in one often find themselves having to write or manipulate code written in the other. Our discussion also covered the need ...

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 ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...