The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

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Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Chess AI engine with GUI for Excel / Word VBA - plus VB6 (Visual Basic 6) edition as UCI/Winboard/SMP engine (ELO 3000) ...

The objective of this project was to integrate the CIELAB color difference formulas into Microsoft Excel using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). This enhancement equips Excel with the capability ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is an implementation of the Visual Basic programming language developed by Microsoft. VBA can be used for enabling UDFs, automating tasks and for accessing WinAPI ...

This book is intended for school students and others learning to program in Visual Basic. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming, electronics, Visual Basic or the Visual Studio environment.

In Microsoft Excel, macros are recorded in Visual Basic programming language and it can be run in several ways. You can run a macro by clicking the Macros command on the Developer tab, using a ...