Visual Basic and C# are like two peas in a programming pod. Both languages use the .NET Framework as the foundation for data and code processing, so naturally there's a lot of overlap in how they ...

Your business's software developers can work with Microsoft's .NET framework to create powerful Excel macros for your spreadsheets. The .NET framework contains a vast library of classes that perform a ...

Extension methods provide a great way for extending a class functionality -- but it's interfaces that let you use those methods anywhere you want. Extension methods let you add functionality to an ...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic is about to sprout some powerful legs this year in the form of Visual Basic.Net. Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application capabilities ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...

When building Visual Basic.Net applications, consider adding an export to Excel feature in addition to printed reports. The added functionality takes little code and your customers can sort and ...

The launch of Visual Studio.Net (VS.Net) marks the official debut of Microsoft .Net, the ambitious, bet-the-company initiative that aspires to weave a fabric of XML-enabled software and services ...