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 ...

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 ...

Dynamic Support Visual Basic 2010 adds late-binding support to the Dynamic Language Runtime, which offers access to objects from dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby. Simply create an ...

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 ...

I seem to remember it being possible to run a downto statement in c++, but I cant figure out how to do it in VB. In the for statement, I want it to count from like 500 to 0 instead of 0 to 500. Is ...