Microsoft will offer “high level” support for Visual Basic 6.0 until 2005, said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft’s Visual Basic .Net product manager. After that, users will have to pay, and the level of support ...

Visual Basic 6 accounted for 67.6% of those inquiries. First released in 1998 and out of extended support since 2008, VB6 appeared 12 times as often as the next single technology. Overall, 83% of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and the ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...