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 ...

Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Anywhere Software announced a free tool that "takes up where Visual Basic left off." Dubbed B4J, the tool has been added to the company's B4X RAD suite, which includes similar offerings such as B4A ...

From time to time, we have been covering good freeware and free software in our Downloads section. We have also been posting about ‘Best 5’ or ‘Top 10’ software in various categories. In this post, I ...