Visual Basic and C#: A new divergence is coming. With last week’s announcement, that co-evolution is gone. Microsoft will let the two languages go different ways, starting with the soon-to-be ...

Although Microsoft programming languages fared quite well in Stack Overflow's huge new developer survey, Visual Basic 6 was again named the "most dreaded" language -- just like last year, and the year ...

Also, on the down side of things for Microsoft, the problematic VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), was the No. 1 "most dreaded" (percent of developers who are developing with the language but have ...

Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...