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.

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

The VB and C# languages have a lot in common, and developers who specialize in one often find themselves having to write or manipulate code written in the other. Our discussion also covered the need ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Well, I didn't USED to be a novice. In fact, I have over 30 years of program development under my belt.<BR><BR>I worked mostly in legacy COBOL, C and C# back in DOS6 days, and most recently ...

ok, so I have been able to set up a VB program that creates a capture window and then displays the webcam, and I also have gotten it to work that if you press a button it brings up a dialogue with all ...