But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

I spent my first years of .NET experience developing desktop Windows Forms applications. Eventually I was asked to architect and develop a major ASP.NET application to provide time card services for ...

Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We’ll walk you through the simple API steps to add this functionality ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) is the current incarnation of the company’s long line of IDEs. It’s the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and, at least, a ...

REALbasic creator REAL Software Inc. will soon offer its developers a new tool that may help ease the conversion of Visual Basic projects to the Macintosh. The company said it’ll soon begin bundling ...

VBA and VB6 have a great deal in common. Of course, they both make use of the language, "Visual Basic". Projects are broken out into Code Modules, User Forms, and Class Modules. Each environment ...

REAL Software has made resources available to help Visual Basic developers migrate their applications to Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The resources include a new white paper, “Porting Visual Basic ...

I’m happy that Visual Basic projects have code metrics along with an incredibly concise syntax, great IntelliSense, and many code snippets. I’m disappointed that Visual Basic projects don’t have code ...