"The whole idea behind Visual Basic is that it has always been a great language to get more people into programming," Scott Hunter, director of program management for Microsoft .NET, told Business ...

At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming ... into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on the .NET platform and ...

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 ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know ... still reckons Visual Basic .Net will "sooner or later go into decline", but concedes it's popular for dedicated office ...

VSA is a .Net-ready version of its Visual Basic ... into third-party applications. VSA code runs wherever the .Net framework runs. The .Net framework is a set of class libraries and programming ...

The 2010 releases also ushered in a critical change in strategy for Microsoft's premier programming languages, C# and Visual Basic .NET. For the first time since ... "It's been joint program ...