Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

In Visual Basic, errors (also called exceptions) fall into one of three categories: syntax errors, run-time errors, and logic errors. Syntax errors are those that appear while you write code. Visual ...

Visual Basic 2010 auto-implemented properties may be initialized to a default value with the "= value" syntax (see Listing 2). The compiler automatically generates a private backing field with the ...

In a recent blog post the Visual Basic team let slip an announcement that Visual Basic and C# would be getting a new syntax for asynchronous programming. Built on top of the Task Parallel Library ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

VBScript is a scripting language that Microsoft first introduced in 1996. It was available as a system component in Windows and was widely used to automate tasks and control Windows-based applications ...