A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one particular section of code, he said "You could really tighten up this code with a couple ...

With extended support for Visual Basic (VB) 6.0 nearing its end this year, many developers are looking for guidance on whether to upgrade, reuse, rewrite, or replace their legacy VB 6 code in favor of ...

Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC ...

Adds context menu items to convert projects/files between VB.NET and C#. See the wiki documentation for advice / help using it. Let us know what needs improving. If you want to get involved in writing ...

With its attention focused on MS-DOS, Microsoft were slow to see the problems with BASIC, and that a core language devised in 1964 just wasn't up to the challenges of 80's computing. This started to ...

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...

The subroutine CHAR_TO_CODE(character) returns the integer ASCII value of a character. For example, CHAR_TO_CODE('a') returns the value 97 CHAR_TO_CODE('z') returns the value 122 CHAR_TO_CODE('`') ...