Clearly, Visual Basic can do static classes. But for reasons of history and clarity, it retained an earlier Module-based syntax, rather than adding a "Shared Class" syntax to its .NET implementation.

Sometimes you have to repeatedly convert one of your custom classes into something else. In Visual Basic, your conversions come in two types: Widening conversions and narrowing conversions. In a ...

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 ...