Developing programs with tools that allow menus, buttons, icons and other screen components to be selected from a palette. Also called a "GUI builder," visual programming tools allow the user ...

Recognizing the limits of traditional CAD for creating and controlling highly complex designs, a new effort has been launched to combine 3D modeling, simulation, and manufacturing processes into one ...

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It used to be that Windows Forms development for user interfaces was the VB programmer's bread and butter. In the MSDN article "Death of the Browser?," Billy Hollis opines that browser-based ...

Web pages are popping up everywhere, giving the world access to just about anything the human mind can imagine. While this has raised some legitimate concerns for many people, most would probably ...

Ask any software developer about their thoughts on pair programming and you're likely to get a wide range of answers. The idea is having two people share a keyboard and computer while they code. This ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

There’s long been a push to stop writing code as a sequence of lines and go to something graphical, which has been very successful in some areas and less so in others. But even when you use something ...