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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's popular Visual Basic development language--used by about half of all professional programmers--may be on the wane, according to a new study. Market researcher Evans Data said Tuesday ...

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 ...

Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only n… ...

Visual Basic, especially "classic" VB, attracted a loyal following, with many projects (like this from 2015) emerging over the years devoted to keeping it alive despite Microsoft having moved on in ...

Visual Basic has been intricately linked to Windows application development. In a 1991 presentation introducing the language, preserved on YouTube , Microsoft founder Bill Gates remarked about ...

With a nod to the past success of macro viruses, more than a quarter of all document malware now spreads via Microsoft's Visual Basic scripting language.

Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. Skip to content Ars Technica home. ... Visual Basic, introduced by Microsoft in 1991, ...

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#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...