In order to support more platforms, Visual Basic 9 will have to the option to exclude the VB Runtime.

The rather extensive runtime library used by Visual Basic and its compiler has been a major stumbling block for the language. Both the Windows Phone 7 and the XBox 360 don’t support the library ...

Microsoft's confirmation that the VB6 runtime will be supported in Windows 11 for its lifetime still keeps this legacy language relevant. While modern programmers with the best laptops might not ...

Making things more confusing, Driver observes, is Microsoft's announced plan to support the VB6 runtime through Longhorn. That means, in theory, that an application built and running today should ...

Company executives reiterate that Microsoft won't extend support for VB6, despite requests from a growing pool of developers.

To target the common language runtime, VB had to undergo some radical changes, the most important of which is support for true object-oriented programming (OOP).

OK, I'm confused, but I know someone out there can help me with this...I have a compiled VB6 COM component (just a wrapper around some Win32 APIs, in particular LogonUser). The component runs ...

Continued Support In fact, Microsoft intends to support the VB6 runtime for the full lifetime of Windows Vista -- five years of mainstream support followed by five years of extended support -- and ...