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.

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.

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 ...

Click "Microsoft Visual Basic," and then click "Visual Basic 6" to open the compiler. Open the VB6 project you want to edit. After the project loads, double-click the form that contains your ListBox.

Launch Excel and click the "Developer" tab above the ribbon menu; then click the "Visual Basic" button. Type "Sub ConvertToText()" (without quotation marks) into the code pane.

Visual Basic for Applications is a computer programming language developed and owned by Microsoft. You can create macros to automate repetitive word- and data-processing functions with VBA and ...