Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Given that Visual Basic .NET was like Visual Basic as a car is to a cartoon, most high-end Visual Basic developers (ones using interfaces, building middle-tier libraries and using COM+) realized they ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 3 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language make up one of the largest and most cohesive developer communities in existence, but some of them now are up for grabs.

Microsoft is marking this month as the 25th birthday of its Visual Basic language with an eye toward future upgrades. The company is planning a marathon Silver Anniversary Celebration, said ...

Automatic alignment of features between the two languages is coming to an end, and C# may see faster release cycles Developers using Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic languages can expect to see ...