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.

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files.

After these settings have been applied, look for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 using the Windows search function and open its file location. Ensure that the settings are as shown in the picture.

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide.

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC ...

And although VBA is installed by default, accessing the Visual Basic Editor (VBE), through which you’ll enter your VBA code, doesn’t automatically appear in the Ribbon. Must-read Windows coverage ...

I wrote a program that generates fractals in visual basic. The way it currently works is that I pass the function a handle to a device context and it uses SetPixel to draw to that hDC.