Visual Basic 6.0 gives you the convenient ability to programmatically check on the status of an application before you act on it. We’ll walk you through the simple API steps to add this functionality ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

Visual Basic 6 accounted for 67.6% of those inquiries. First released in 1998 and out of extended support since 2008, VB6 appeared 12 times as often as the next single technology. Overall, 83% of ...

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 ...

The developers, members of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program which recognizes influential members of the developer community, claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual ...

Hundreds of users with heavy investments in Visual Basic 6 code have urged Microsoft Corp. to reconsider its 3-year-old decision to end mainstream support for the development environment at the end of ...

Microsoft remains “firm” in its plans to end free support for Visual Basic 6 at the end of the month, S. “Soma” Somasegar, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s tools division, told CNET ...