With Visual Studio, you can create many different types of projects, such as .NET applications programmed with the Visual Basic language and standalone Windows and mobile Visual Basic programs.

The expanded project types to foster a move to the new framework were in response to customer feedback, said Microsoft, which noted advantages of the language such as stability. "We've heard your ...

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 ...

The first beta of Visual Basic.Net, part of Microsoft's new Visual Studio.Net suite, has a number of developers in an uproar.

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 ...

This announcement leaves a lot of uncertainty for Visual Basic developers, but Microsoft’s Anthony D. Green, Visual Basic Language Designer, has provided some details on this new strategy.

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 ...

Visual Basic, just like Visual Studio, will be skipping directly from version 12 to version 14. Though many of these features are also new to C#, there are quite a few enhancements meant ...

Microsoft declared Visual Studio 2005 Express "forever free" last week, extending the no-cost deal it initially said would end a year after the software's November 2005 release.