Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application capabilities, such as inheritance, that were previously confined to other languages, C++ for example.

In this white paper, I’ll show how you can preserve your investment in Visual Basic by porting your code to Linux and/or Macintosh using REAL Software’s REALbasic. I’ll provide some examples, share ...

Partly for legacy reasons, Visual Basic supplies an alternate shutdown mode. In somewhat simplified terms, Windows manages the message queue for events based on a window, or form. When this main form ...

Visual Basic 6 has been supported longer than any other Microsoft product, according to the representative. “Extended” support, which is fee-based, will continue through 2008.

That makes the question of when to think about shifting large legacy Visual Basic applications to .Net much murkier, though Dial says it’s clearly time to stop building new software with VB 6.

Many developers who need to run or terminate an application from Visual Basic 6.0 rely on shell commands. However, you can also accomplish this task by using API functions. Time to code ...

Why install Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 11 Installing Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows 11 is driven by the need to support and maintain existing applications that were originally developed using VB6.

It was supplanted by Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2002, but that version wasn't backwards-compatible and never enjoyed the same vocal popularity as VB6. While VB.NET continues ...

The arrival of the first beta of AppForge for Symbian later this month will allow smart phones to tap into a large body of existing Visual Basic applications. AppForge, the popular Visual Basic ...

Prior to .NET, Visual Basic used an invisible form for the message queue, and thus you could open and close visible forms at will. In .NET, the message queue is associated with the main displayed form ...