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#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Microsoft's ubiquitous spreadsheet application, Excel, is a useful tool for small and large businesses alike. However, the Excel format is proprietary and some software applications aren't able to ...

Microsoft Excel offers two ways to link sheets in a workbook: hyperlinks and macros. Hyperlinks use the program's ribbon controls, while macros use Visual Basic code. With both methods, users click a ...

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Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a ...

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 ...

Anyone can automate tasks in Excel if they know how to use Visual Basic for Applications. Excel has long been one of Microsoft's most popular software products, and for good reason: it allows everyday ...

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Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...

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 ...

Some of the applications made using Visual Basic 6 (VB6), the macros created with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), as well as the scripts or the apps made using Visual Basic Scripting Edition ...

Microsoft's popular Visual Basic development language--used by about half of all professional programmers--may be on the wane, according to a new study. Market researcher Evans Data said Tuesday that ...