Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

While Win32 APIs can be called from .NET languages, doing so can be quite difficult. So for the last two year Microsoft has been building a replacement known as Windows Runtime or WinRT with cross-lan ...

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 ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...