When I registered dao350.dll with regsvr32 and tried opening Visual Basic, it gave me an error: "Unexpected error; quitting"<BR><BR>I don't have the original installation disks, so I can't reinstall.

You probably need to declare area() as PASCAL calling convention and with the EXPORT macro so that it is, indeed, exported from your DLL. You'll also have to defeat C++ "name-mangling", so define it ...

Classes moved to VBA, but upgrading and testing is unavoidable With the end of Windows 10 looming, Microsoft has reminded ...

Microsoft first announced plans to retire the Visual Basic Scripting language in 2023, giving developers and organizations ample time to prepare. The company is now reiterating ...

A version of BASIC from Microsoft specialized for Windows. A subset of Visual Basic provides a macro language for Microsoft applications (see VBA). When released in 1991, Visual Basic (VB) was similar ...

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 ...