Although Visual Basic will need it on systems that don’t have the full .NET Framework, C# will be able to address platforms like .NET Core directly, accessing its APIs.

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

In C#, you have to check your event delegate for null before calling it. I also think the syntax for Modules in Visual Basic .NET is more concise than C#. With C# I have to make a "static sealed" ...

Developers using Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic languages can expect to see more differentiation between them soon. ... .NET Aspire update includes AI debugging via GitHub Copilot. May 23, 2025 ...

Visual Basic .Net's continued ascent comes despite Microsoft last year announcing it would end the co-evolution of Visual Basic and C# and focus on "core scenarios and domains" where Visual Basic ...

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 ...

Visual Basic 16.9 Language Features The first VB 16.9 feature is support for Default Interface Methods . This highly controversial C# 8 feature allows new methods to be added to interfaces with an ...

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 ...

This book was created to help you master the .Net Framework Version 2.0 using either Visual Basic or C#, and to help you become a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist by passing the 70-536 ...

Visual Basic .NET is the successor of Microsoft's well-beloved classic Visual Basic 6.0 version. Since Visual Basic .NET needed to run on Microsoft's .NET platform, the language has changed ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...