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.

If you want to allow users to print form components in run-time, the PrintDocument component lets you offer users this functionality. The PrintDocument component is an object that allows users to send ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

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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 ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

If you want to enable or disable Trust access to Visual Basic Project in Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., you can do so with the help of the in-built option, Local Group Policy ...