The logical choice for .Net development is C#.” New features in Visual Basic 14 “may help some current Visual Basic developers, but they are not geared at gaining a new audience,” he says.

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organisation with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

C#’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds, while Visual Basic has slowly slipped down the charts, almost disappearing from the radar of popular programming query sites like Stack Overflow.

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users ...

From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 13, 2020, 4:42 a.m. PT ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

The failure stems from differences between single-character strings and true-character instances, and between Visual Basic conversions and C# casts. Whereas the Visual Basic code converts the string ...

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together ...

The Goto statement in both Visual Basic and C# seems like an amazing tool for getting out of sticky code blocks. But it can also get you into sticky blocks, at least in Visual Basic. Consider this ...

Murach's Visual Basic 6's hands-on examples is the only way to learn the programming language.