The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

So I'm trying to detect through Visual Basic 6.0 when a voltage change occurs on one of the pins of the serial/parallel port. The whole thing is pretty simple; no data transfer/handshaking/etc needs ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is pleased to announce Microsoft’s Visual Basic as the recipient of this year’s Technical Impact Award at the 19 th ...

It used to be that Windows Forms development for user interfaces was the VB programmer's bread and butter. In the MSDN article "Death of the Browser?," Billy Hollis opines that browser-based ...