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

Resources Microsoft: Download .NET Framework 4.5 from Official Microsoft Download Center Microsoft: Visual Studio: What's New in Visual Studio 2012 ...

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

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...