If you could peer inside the My.Forms feature, you might find Visual Basic adding parallel form access points for every Form-derived class you include in your application, as shown in Listing 1.

Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a bit long in the tooth compared to newer languages like Java, PHP, or Apple’s six-month-old Swift. But it still has a ...

But null and Nothing have syntax-specific uses that don't travel well between the two languages. Consider the initialization of standard value types, such as ordinary integer variables. If you want to ...

The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly A change that should have been made fifteen years ago.

VB Converter enables Visual Basic programmers to port their code to REALbasic. It automatically coverts Visual Basic forms, projects and code into REALbasic-compatible code, comments the changes ...