Last month, Microsoft announced it will no longer add new language features to its Visual Basic programming language, first released in 1991. Visual Basic is an upgraded version of the BASIC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic is about to sprout some powerful legs this year in the form of Visual Basic.Net. Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application ...

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 ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

TIOBE Index has released its list of top programming languages for December 2018 with a surprising finding that Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET is moving up the ranks.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. ... Visual Basic, introduced by Microsoft in 1991, ...