Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

The Visual Basic 2010 syntax is shown in Listing 3 on the left; the equivalent C# syntax is shown on the right. Collection initializers are also available for more complex types, such as dictionaries.

As with any variable in Visual Basic, you declare a decimal type before you use it. To declare the variable, you use the "Dim" statement followed by the variable's name and the words "as decimal ...

How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

Dynamic Support Visual Basic 2010 adds late-binding support to the Dynamic Language Runtime, which offers access to objects from dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby. Simply create an ...