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.

C# might be more elegant with escape sequences, but that doesn't mean Visual Basic is weaker in this area. Sometimes you just need to escape. I'm speaking, of course, about escape sequences in strings ...

The Visual Basic "Button" class lets you create a control on your VB projects that perform an action such as auto-save. VB also includes file classes that help you create functions to save files.

In the December 2018 index, Visual Basic .Net now ranks fifth, the highest it's ever been since the company started tracking the Microsoft language in 2001.

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 ...