Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to .NET 5 Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 13, 2020 at 4:42 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Another DECLINED UserVoice post asks Microsoft to "Provide a Visual Basic 6 Community edition - to allow free download of the VB6 programming language." "We have no plans to release a new incarnation ...

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 ...

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only n… ...

Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to the Visual Basic .Net programming language carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, ArtinSoft executive vice president, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...