The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

It's great that your new team is ready to support your immersion into Visual Basic. It's always a bad idea to exaggerate skills, but since everyone is being honest, I think you'll be successful in the ...

It was a simple VBScript program that allowed 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov to grab 100 million plus credit card numbers from Target and Neiman Marcus stores. Those 100 million credit card holders are ...

The authors feel that this book has something to offer for all skill levels in VB programming. But the book largely comes across as a beginner's guide. The authors feel that this book has something to ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

Well, I didn't USED to be a novice. In fact, I have over 30 years of program development under my belt.<BR><BR>I worked mostly in legacy COBOL, C and C# back in DOS6 days, and most recently ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...