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Ars Technica20y
Simple parallel/serial port programming (Visual Basic 6.0)
So I'm trying to detect through Visual Basic 6.0 when ... whole thing is pretty simple; no data transfer/handshaking/etc needs to happen. All I'm going for is for the program to be notified ...
ZDNet6y
Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net dead? No, it's fifth most popular programming language
Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know ... and is probably still used by many developers because it's easy to learn. When Microsoft announced its new strategy ...
Business Insider5y
A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month
Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language ... drag-and-drop element to coding simple software for Windows.
GIGAZINE2y
The secret story of the birth of 'Visual Basic' developed by Microsoft and boasting tremendous popularity for a while
The programming ... Visual Basic' and was released in 1991. At this time, Mr. Cooper disliked BASIC, so he was dissatisfied with Microsoft's strategy. The advent of Visual Basic made it easy ...
Ars Technica8y
The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly
Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming ... made Visual Basic.NET a technically better language—it gained proper support for object orientation, for example ...