These built-in functions fall short when you want to automate specific tasks or perform unique calculations in your databases. Here is where the magic of VBA (Virtual Basic for Applications) comes in.

In my January article " Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11 ," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...

In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...

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 ...

These add-ons incorporate cross-platform custom controls, a handset run-time engine, and a custom compiler. Mobile VB supports most common Visual Basic functions and subroutines.

GHS users can now write Visual Basic functions in Excel, and with very little effort have a spreadsheet where cell values are calculated by GHS.