By Joe Kunk 08/01/2012 A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this ...

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 ...

Instead of presenting facets of Visual Basic code in a fragmented manner, Murach's book presents a cogent explanation of the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming in the context of real-world ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation ...

The most striking thing when looking at Visual Basic 2010 code is the lack of line-continuation characters. At last we can use long and expressive method and variable names in statements that span ...

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organization with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

As Visual Basic morphs into an object-oriented language, programmers face serious retraining and code transition issues. Here's how they're coping.

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organisation with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

Visual Basic also has an open design model, but it has different priorities from C#. It already supports a subset of C#’s features in its current builds as part of the release candidate of ...

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organization with an investment in Visual Basic code ...