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 ...

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 ...

The `#Region` directive enables you to collapse and hide sections of code in Visual Basic files. The `#Region` directive lets you specify a block of code that you can expand or collapse when using the ...

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 ...

The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language targets both beginning and experienced developers alike. Paul Vick explains how VB works clearly and concisely, and he covers data types, conversions, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...