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 ...

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Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it. Q What happens when I check "Enable application framework" in my ...

If you want to enable or disable Trust access to Visual Basic Project in Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., you can do so with the help of the in-built option, Local Group Policy ...

On the Developer tab, click the Visual Basic button in the Code group. A Microsoft Visual Basic for Application window will open. Click the Insert tab and select Module in the menu. A new model is ...

This is a little more informative, but you still can't tell what's really going on, because it's magic. If you could peer inside the My.Forms feature, you might find Visual Basic adding parallel form ...

While many small business owners choose to use commercial applications to manage day-to-day operations, many tech-savvy entrepreneurs choose to create their own applications in Microsoft Access. With ...