Visual Basic

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Going Native (Premium)

A recent Microsoft developer blog post makes an interesting assertion about native code that conjures…

Microsoft Updates its .NET Language Strategy

Almost three years after it said that it would no longer add new features to…

Microsoft Plots the End of Visual Basic

Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: File Efficiency and Save Prompts (Premium)

The fourth installment of our project loads a file more efficiently and prompts the user…

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The WinForms Notepad Project: First Steps (Premium)

As a beginner project, I’m going to try to duplicate the Notepad application as faithfully…

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Programming Windows: Visual Basic to the Future (Premium)

Before moving past Visual Basic classic, let’s take a look at how Microsoft evolved VB…

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Programming Windows: Visual Basic Takes Over the World (Premium)

Visual Basic was instantly popular and its ease of use and suitability for application development…

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Programming Windows: Visual Basic Beginnings (Premium)

Visual Basic was the right tool at the right time, and it was everything that…

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