Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

A few months after releasing the Altair BASIC source code, Microsoft has shared another cornerstone of its early software success. The company announced that 6502 BASIC ...

Microsoft hopes pro-level individual developers now running Visual Basic tools will take to the new Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition environment introduced at VSLive Orlando conference.

Visual Basic .NET continues in the great tradition that Visual Basic began more than 10 years ago. It makes developing Windows applications easy and quick. An event-driven variation of the original ...

Microsoft plans to provide programmers with an interim version of its Visual Studio 2005 development tool and to release its server-based speech software next week.

In addition to making the process of writing code a simple matter of dragging and dropping icons, Visual Basic turns out software that uses the same slick graphical user interface used by Windows 98.

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps.