Today's users are more demanding—they expect to find Microsoft Office application features, such as popup-style windows, irregularly shaped forms, and collapsible and dockable controls, in a robust ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers several alternatives and the agony of choice is now greater than ever, as three external providers are also involved in the ...

.NET CF is a subset of Microsoft's API classes for the server and desktop. You can program in any of the languages that Microsoft Visual Studio supports (including C# and Visual Basic .NET) and target ...

Windows Forms would like you to know that the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. How exaggerated? Claims of its death go back at least to 2014, when a post started off with "Everyone knows ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...