As a developer you probably spend large amounts of time every day working with Visual Studio; but have you taken the time to make it right for you, to learn about all the features it has? This thought ...

In his Editor's Note, "VB6 Petition Inflames Passions on the Web" [June 2005], Patrick Meader asks, "How do you feel about the petition?" Well, as a provider of a low-volume, high-cost software ...

In a move to reassure Visual Basic 6.0 users, concerned that the launch of Visual Studio marks the end of their development environment, Microsoft has announced that it plans to support VB 6.0 until ...

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 ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...