Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a bit long in the tooth compared to newer languages like Java, PHP, or Apple’s six-month-old Swift. But it still has a ...

Code Focused A Lifetime of Data in C# and Visual Basic Or, how lifetime can mean different lengths of time, depending on whether it's procedural- or block-level. By Tim Patrick 07/20/2016 ...

Visual Basic and C# endow their variables with the same lifetimes, with one key exception: block-level variables. These local variables, when defined within a block statement, behave differently ...