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 ...

“There are indeed still developers using Visual Basic,” says Jansen. There are limits, however, he adds. “As soon as applications become bigger than 100,000 lines of code, Visual Basic is ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation ...

The switch to .NET as the foundation for Microsoft’s development strategy made sense for new languages like C#, but it meant changes to Visual Basic wherein code couldn’t easily migrate from ...

A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft ... the compiler converted source code into an intermediate "bytecode" that had to be interpreted. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

And for existing Visual Basic code that has been tweaked and adjusted over many years from version to version, VB .Net may signal the end of the line. In the long run, keeping those applications ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

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. For example ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.