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 ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

With its attention focused on MS-DOS, Microsoft were slow to see the problems with BASIC, and that a core language devised in 1964 just wasn't up to the challenges of 80's computing. This started to ...

The programming language inspired a generation to start coding in minutes. Developers explain what it taught them about creativity Baby we were born to RUN: celebrating 50 years of Basic It is 50 ...

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 ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

I've been working on a project on and off and it's gotten to the stage where coworkers are wanting to view my code. I copied the entire project folder onto the network and assumed they'd be able to ...

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 ...