A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#.

Visual Basic is so easy that even people who just use their computers for such multimedia basics as word processing, on-line surfing and drawing pictures might be amazed at what else this software ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in ...

Learn how to create a calendar in Microsoft Excel with data using a pre-designed template, Visual Basic code, or a manual method.

However, by using Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, you can also create macros or command buttons to perform various printing tasks within Excel much faster and more efficiently.

Microsoft has started letting developers build and release applications for Windows Phone 7 using Visual Basic, potentially opening the door to more applications.