Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only not quite as ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

When you call a `Sub` or `Function` procedure, you can pass arguments *by position* — in the order in which they appear in the procedure's definition — or you can pass them *by name*, without regard ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

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 ...

Abstract: In the Visual Basic programming curriculum, the “project development approach” is adopted to design teaching and the teaching order is adjusted in order to implement the principle of ...