Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

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 ...

A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

Costa Rica’s central bank has completed what could be the largest code migration to date from Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .Net. The Banco Central de Costa Rica migrated 1.3 ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...