How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Not that VB6 enthusiasts are totally out of luck. Last August, we covered a "Free Tool Offered as Classic Visual Basic Successor" from B4J. VB6 supporters couldn't help opening up old wounds in the ...

In the December 2018 index, Visual Basic .Net now ranks fifth, the highest it's ever been since the company started tracking the Microsoft language in 2001.

Visual Basic, especially "classic" VB, attracted a loyal following, with many projects (like this from 2015) emerging over the years devoted to keeping it alive despite Microsoft having moved on in ...