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 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

With licensing restrictions that favor individual users and open source developers, the free-to-use edition of Visual Studio offers non-Microsoft developers quite a lot, too With Visual Studio 2015 ...

Spread the loveIn the vast, often expensive, landscape of digital content creation, finding powerful tools that don’t drain ...

Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 ...