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Visual Basic WinForms template: We waited to add the template to Visual Studio until you could create WinForms applications with the Application Framework. This new template is the default in Visual ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

My college-age daughter is dipping her toes into the world of entrepreneurship. During her summer break, she'll be opening and managing a direct sales office for Cutco kitchen products. To help ensure ...

Now that we have seen how to develop an application with Visual Basic .NET, what about your existing applications? Do you leave them as is, or should you upgrade them? There are different factors to ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...