Microsoft’s Visual Basic.Net language, which brought Visual Basic to the .Net Framework, has just hit an all-time high in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. But is it just a temporary ...

In beta 2, Visual Studio 2010 is beginning to show the rather attractive shape of things to come. It supports software process with Team Foundation Server (TFS), and provides intelligent targeting of ...

I spent my first years of .NET experience developing desktop Windows Forms applications. Eventually I was asked to architect and develop a major ASP.NET application to provide time card services for ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

OK, raise your hands: Do you do your data programming in Visual Basic .NET? If I was a speaker at a development conference and asked that question, I'd expect to be squinting to see the results. Yet ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

Rational Software Corp. unveiled several new tools and features during its annual user conference last week, including a version of its visual design and modeling tool that will work with Microsoft ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...