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 ...

See how lambda expressions enhance a common programming scenario. By Joe Kunk; 08/01/2012; A friend was recently reviewing some Visual Basic code that I was having an issue with. As we looked at one ...

Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...

Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...

Why Basic mattered. Chief among the mourners has been tech pundit and science fiction author David Brin, who decried Basic’s passing in a widely cited article, “Why Johnny Can’t Code ...

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.