Earlier versions of Visual Basic included scripting technology. In fact, VBScript-short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition-was all about scripting.

With a nod to the past success of macro viruses, more than a quarter of all document malware now spreads via Microsoft's Visual Basic scripting language.

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

Sometime in the past few hours, Microsoft posted official warnings about an 'invalid procedure call error' associated with August patches for all versions of Windows, from Win7 onward, and ...

To patch Windows or not: Do you want BlueKeep bug or broken Visual Basic apps? This week's Windows updates fix critical 'wormable' flaws but may also break Visual Basic apps, macros, and scripts.

The core language in BasicMaker is based on Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. It's a fairly straightforward variant on BASIC, a language which has been around for decades and ...