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.

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 ...

What do you folks consider the best visual programming language (i.e. a language in which you write code visually via a drag and drop or other mechanism not something like Visual Basic)? I have a ...

The company goes back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes. April 4, 2001 2:00 p.m. PT.

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...