A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010. My very first learning experience ...

VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...

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 ...

Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the computer screen. Visual Basic developers have a ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

Launch and terminate applications in Visual Basic 6.0 Your email has been sent Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you ...