According to meeting notes for the C# team, posted earlier this month on GitHub, the team is looking beyond the planned version 6.0 of the type-safe, object-oriented language.

C# compiles to MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language, formerly known as portable binary format), an intermediate, assembly-like language to which all .Net languages compile.

COMMENTARY--C# is a language for writing .NET applications. It is not exclusive in this role (Visual Basic, C++, Java, COBOL, Python and Perl, among others, all have compilers that generate code ...

Built on .NET technology, PowerShell provides a highly sophisticated dynamic language that includes impressive support for first-class functions and other desirable features.

On February 6th 2023, Kathleen Dollard, principal program manager on .NET team at Microsoft, posted an update of the .NET language strategy. The new document is a continuation of the same ideas from t ...

The transition to .NET in 2002, with what was called, at the time, Visual Basic.NET, left developers familiar with those languages high and dry; although the new language was called Visual Basic ...

It's not only fun helping C# developers catch up with VBers, but useful as well. Still, it's a fact that at the moment, the two languages really are similar in terms of both features and power. You ...

Moreover, with Phalanger, PHP becomes a first-class language for developing ASP.Net component-based Web applications and Web services, as well as console and WinForms applications, Microsoft ...

Among the .NET news out of Microsoft Build 2020 is a new preview of C#, Microsoft's programming language from the .NET team, plus a fully supported release of Blazor WebAssembly.

Since the The .NET Language Strategy was published in 2017, the general belief in the .NET community was that Visual Basic was effectively a dead language. But Microsoft has been quietly working on ex ...