I was the first customer in our local AT&T store to purchase a Windows Phone 7 when it was first released in the United States in early November. I called ahead to make sure they had my selected ...

64-bit-capable machines are everywhere. It's time you start thinking about 64-bit support as you develop your Visual Basic applications. There was a time when 64-bit computing was an exotic idea, but ...

Microsoft has started letting developers build and release applications for Windows Phone 7 using Visual Basic, potentially opening the door to more applications on the new smartphone platform. The ...

In its day, circa 1991, Microsoft Visual Basic (aka VB) disrupted Windows development by making it possible for novices to drag and drop their way to runnable Windows applications built from forms and ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

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 ...

BEA Systems is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook with its latest Java tools strategy. In a bid to widen its lead in the e-business software market, BEA is courting software developers with a ...

Microsoft announced today record sales of Mac Office 2008 which was launched at Macworld San Francisco: "The response has been amazing; since we launched in January, the velocity of sales for Office ...

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...