TechRepublic

How to enable the Developer tab and open the Visual Basic Editor in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365

These step-by-step instructions show you how to add the Developer tab to the Ribbon in Word and Excel 2016 and Office 365, and to use it to launch the Visual Basic Editor and access Visual Basic for ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: We won’t evolve Visual Basic programming language but we’ll open it to .NET 5

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft’s .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...
TechRepublic

Read and write text files with Visual Basic .NET

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...
Business Insider

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft: 'We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as a Language'

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...