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Leverage your experience in Visual Basic. Port your code to REALbasic where you can compile your applications for Linux, Mac OS X and all 32-bit versions of Windows, including Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 ...

Visual Studio .NET simplifies the process of installing your applications by providing an easy way to add the Setup Wizard to your applications. In this tip, Irina Medvinskaya will create a simple ...

As of April 1, Microsoft ended free professional telephone and online incident support and free critical updates, according to a posting on the company's MSDN site for developers. Both services, ...

There was a time when 64-bit computing was an exotic idea, but those days are long past. 64-bit-capable clients and servers-which have the ability to accept copious amounts of RAM and to run 64-bit ...

Continuing to fill out its Visual Studio tools line, Microsoft Corp. on Monday is announcing Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, intended for developers working in small organizations. The company on ...

What are we going to do with all this Visual Basic? If you’re a project manager with a portfolio of Visual Basic applications to maintain, that’s no idle question. Microsoft’s newest version of its ...

Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. Microsoft remains "firm" in its plans to end free support ...