The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

As a seasoned Visual Basic programmer with a keen interest in Arabic software, I was able to develop a solution for the RightToLeft problem before it was officially adopted by Microsoft. The solution ...

Digital oscilloscopes have a great thing going for them: they are digital. Instrument settings, waveforms, and screen images can be saved as digital files either internally or to external devices. Not ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class back in the 20th century. The Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code celebrated its 60th ...

Of all the things that might inspire a career in technology, a rocket-themed address book is not the first that springs to mind. But that was the original spark for Belinda Finch’s 25-plus years and ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Visual Basic 6 is the last version of Visual Basic to be introduced back in early 1998. While Windows 10 supported VB6, Windows 11 users had a doubt if the latest OS would come with VB6 support or not ...

VBC.exe is a legitimate Visual Basic Compiler file, an essential component of the Microsoft .NET framework. If you need to run Visual Basic applications, removing this executable will cause runtime ...

These are the steps you need to enable .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5 in Windows 11: .NET is a platform comprising various tools, programming languages, and other resources necessary for building a ...

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of the Visual Basic programming language developed by Microsoft. VBA can be used for enabling UDFs, automating tasks and for accessing WinAPI ...