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Microsoft's New Visual Basic - A .Not?
News The three million software developers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language will face some tough choices when the company ships the new version of its programming suite later this year. Another Microsoft Visual Basic MVP, Karl Peterson, echoed...
[January 19, 2001, 8:16]
Read How Prudential Securities Used Microsoft Visual Basic To Change The Way It Developed Applications Without Changing Its Development Team
White Papers Visual Basic satisfied the group's requirements better than, any of the other tools they had tried. The Information Systems and Communications Division of Prudential Securities, decided to create most of their new systems as a combination of...
[August 20, 2004, 0:00]
Rational Updates Modelling Tool For .Net
News Rational on Monday spruced up its XDE Professional tool with support for Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net language and ASP.Net class library technology, which makes it easier to build complex Web-based business systems by handling much of the...
[August 20, 2002, 9:09]
Visual Basic Use May Be Declining
News Usage of Microsoft's popular Visual Basic development language -- used by about half of all professional programmers -- may be on the wane, according to a recent study. The good news for Microsoft is that at least some programmers leaving Visual...
[May 7, 2003, 10:55]
BEA Touts 'Visual Basic For Java'
News Visual Basic is Microsoft's visual-oriented programming tool that revolutionised Windows development in 1991 because of its ease of use: instead of writing all the software code by hand, developers dragged and dropped pre-built software code on...
[February 25, 2002, 15:27]
Microsoft Plans To Ease The Way From VB To Visual Studio.Net
News Big corporations are diving in, but small businesses and hobbyists are slower," said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net product manager. On 22 April, Microsoft will run a free day's seminar in the UK for users upgrading to Visual Studio .Net.
[March 20, 2002, 10:17]
Date Set For End Of Visual Basic 6 Support
News Microsoft will offer "high level" support for Visual Basic 6.0 until 2005, said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net product manager. In a move to reassure Visual Basic 6.0 users, concerned that the launch of Visual Studio marks the end of...
[March 19, 2002, 16:57]
Legion Of New Viruses Approaches
News The addition of Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to Corel's WordPerfect 9 means macro programs may be transmitted between these programs. The potential danger says Tober is due to Visual Basic, a Microsoft programming language that...
[August 5, 1999, 10:29]
Second Beta Of Visual J# Released
News J# will evolve," said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net product manager. The Sun lawsuit doesn't affect the release of Visual J# .Net at all," said Tony Goodhew, Microsoft's product manager for the .Net Framework.
[March 20, 2002, 10:48]
IBM Woos Microsoft Developers With New Tools
News Free support for Microsoft's Visual Basic 6 ended last year, raising the ire of a number of developers. IBM is also teaming up with partner Mainsoft to help developers migrate their Microsoft Visual Basic.Net applications to Java 2 Enterprise...
[November 3, 2006, 14:45]
Microsoft Admits .Net Skills Shortage
News Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's head of technology for development and platforms, admitted on Monday that there aren't enough developers in the market who can help companies migrate to .Net. Microsoft has suggested that companies who can't find...
[November 9, 2005, 12:30]
New .Net Tools Released As Push Continues
News The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to subscribers of its Microsoft Developer Network, a Web site and fee-based subscription service for developers using Microsoft's products.
[January 17, 2002, 12:06]
.Net Gets Close To Fruition
News Microsoft presented several new components of .Net to developers at its TechEd conference in Atlanta late last month, including the second beta of Visual Basic .Net and Visual Studio .Net. This bodes well for coders on Microsoft's Visual Studio...
[July 4, 2001, 11:28]
Java Allies Ape Microsoft's Methods
News Microsoft's successful Visual Basic tools, which allow developers to quickly build corporate applications, have long helped propel the growth of Windows-based software, particularly on desktop PCs. Java was able to drive a wedge into Microsoft's...
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
Visual Basic Developers Revolting
News But MVPs hope Microsoft will reconsider not just VB6's support options, but will continue to develop the language alongside its newer Visual Basic.Net. Microsoft continues to develop C++ alongside C#, the language's .NET counterpart, and the...
[March 11, 2005, 10:50]
Microsoft To Debut Developer Tools
News The tools bundle replaces the existing Visual Studio tools -- used by some five million developers, according to Microsoft -- and includes several new features, along with updates to existing products such as the company's popular Visual Basic...
[February 13, 2002, 12:32]
Microsoft Tests Out Mobile .Net
News Currently, developers must use special versions of Microsoft's Visual Basic and Visual C++ tools to write programs for mobile devices. The .Net Compact Framework works in conjunction with Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools to let developers write...
[April 17, 2002, 14:36]
New Tool Aims To Make Linux RAD
News The best-known RAD environments are Microsoft's Visual Basic and Borland's Delphi, both designed for development on Microsoft's Windows operating systems. Microsoft's Windows operating systems have benefited from RADs designed to allow programmers...
[February 1, 2001, 9:34]
Get Some Laughs And VB.Net Info With VBTV
News With production values that you'd expect from a late-night public access show and more than a few oddball characters, VBTV delivers some important information about Microsoft's newest version of Visual Basic in a surprisingly fun and campy format.
[September 27, 2002, 19:45]
Microsoft Teases New Visual Studio.Net
News Microsoft will also include support in Everett for more automated development of Windows Forms, the traditional Windows client applications usually built with Microsoft's Visual Basic tools. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates offered a glimpse on Friday...
[November 11, 2002, 8:08]
