From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core. Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Use cases are changing, too: Visual Basic is still focused on its original client-server paradigm, while C# has become a tool for n-tier web-based applications, working in the cloud and on premises.

With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together SoftWIRE components.

As Visual Basic morphs into an object-oriented language, programmers face serious retraining and code transition issues. Here's how they're coping.

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 ...

An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company’s intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft ...

The Mono Project says its Visual Basic compiler will enable developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without code ...

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#. Study: Visual Basic use may be slipping - CNET X ...

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 ...