I saw Patrick Meader's Editor's Note on the acceptance of C# versus VB ("C#'s Exploding Mindshare," November 2007), and I wanted to add a few points of my own. I don't think that 41 percent of ...

Visual Basic.NET is getting comfortable in its new position as a top five programming language in the TIOBE index, which measures popularity based on search engine data. After hitting a high in the ...

Ok I've decided to ditch MS Access for my front end and start learning a replacement vehicle for database access.<BR><BR>I'm torn between web based front ends (using I assume ASP.NET) and a Windows ...

Hejlsberg: It depends on how you count. If you count in Visual Basic, VB6 and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and VB.Net and whatever, it’s obviously an enormous user base that dwarfs practically ...

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 ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...