Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Originally Altair BASIC in 1975, Microsoft BASIC was the first product from Microsoft and the first high-level programming language for the Altair. Microsoft BASIC evolved into various versions of ...

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

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 ...

On the Developer tab, click the Visual Basic button in the Code group. A Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window will open. Click the Insert tab and select Module in the menu. A new model is ...

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 ...