Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic.

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Visual Studio 2015, which Microsoft is positioning as a 'toolset for any developer targeting any device on any platform,' is now available for download.

With Visual Studio, you can create many different types of projects, such as .NET applications programmed with the Visual Basic language and standalone Windows and mobile Visual Basic programs.

The new MSDN Web site launched several new features recently, including a new home page; Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds; new developer centers for Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual ...

Second, however, Microsoft has seen that Visual Basic has twice the share of new developers in Visual Studio as it does of all developers.