Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

Real Software hopes to make it easier for developers to move to its RealBasic cross-platform development application. On Tuesday, the company released VB Migration Assistant, which helps programs move ...

Rational Software Corp. unveiled several new tools and features during its annual user conference last week, including a version of its visual design and modeling tool that will work with Microsoft ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.