More small business owners than you might think are creating and writing their own software programs, and many times their first programming baby steps involve the use of Visual Basic for Applications ...

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 ...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are reshaping the landscape of software development, particularly in the realm of generating Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code. These innovative solutions are ...

But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

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 ...

Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O) is a set of software layers designed to provide access to an Oracle database from Microsoft COM Automation and ActiveX compatible languages such as Visual Basic, Visual ...