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Getting Started with Visual Basic: Your First Visual Basic Program for the Desktop

By Hannes DuPreez - Published 02/01/2016

Visual Basic is one of the friendliest programs around, and so it's easy to start coding with it.

Text to Speech Using Windows SAPI

By saifi hasan - Published 06/26/2007

Learn how to use the Windows Text-To-Speech (TTS) API.

Sample Code: Sudoku in VB .NET

By Michael Champion - Published 12/14/2006

Sudoku is a logic-based location puzzle game normally played using numbers. This is simply an introduction to some of the facets of VB .NET using the mathematics behind Sudoku.

An Orcas Preview: Go Inside the Next Version of VB

By Josh Fitzgerald - Published 07/07/2006

Visual Basic 9 (codename: Orcas) promises exciting new features to make developers' lives easier, especially in the areas of data access and management. Get a feature preview of a few standouts.

Test Driven Development from Scratch with NUnit 2.2.0, TestDriven.Net 1.0, and VB.NET

By Victor Damian - Published 03/29/2005

This is a very simple example to get TDD newbies started with NUnit 2.2.0 and Test Driven.Net 1.0 in VB.NET.

Discovering Visual Basic .NET: Using Functions and Arguments

By Bill Hatfield - Published 12/30/2004

A lot of functionality it already done for you. Learn how to use built-in functionality in Visual Basic .NET. with this installment of our Visual Basic .NET tutorials.