Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We'll walk you through the simple API steps to add this ...

So I'm trying to detect through Visual Basic 6.0 when a voltage change occurs on one of the pins of the serial/parallel port. The whole thing is pretty simple; no data transfer/handshaking/etc ...

Launch Visual Basic 6 or Visual Basic Express. Open the project file in which you want to create a module and command button that creates an Excel spreadsheet from selected data.

My favorite programming tool, Visual Basic 6.0, was re-issued in a much more complex form as Visual Basic .NET. Same for the languages of C++ and C#.

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.