Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to the Visual Basic .Net programming language carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, ArtinSoft executive vice president, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.

50 years after Basic, most users still can't or won't program anything When Dartmouth College launched the Basic language 50 years ago, it enabled ordinary users to write code. Millions did.

Write a simple program within the main function. In this example, simply create a print statement with the "println ()" function and have it repeat using a "for" loop:public static void main ...

The pioneer of structured programming, Edsger Dijkstra, said in 1975, for example, that it was almost impossible to teach good programming to students who had previously come into contact with BASIC.