Visual Basic is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language. According to TIOBE, the reason why its rise is surprising is because not many professional software developers pay a lot of ...

Even as Visual Basic and C# grow more alike, they're diversifying from their core as strongly and statically typed programming languages. The .NET Framework 4 introduced the Dynamic Language Runtime ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was only with the introduction of Microsoft's object-oriented programming language and development environment Visual Basic in the early 1990s, which was intended to drastically accelerate the ...

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 ...

But the move to Visual Basic.Net is not merely a programming language upgrade; developers who have expertise in Visual Basic 6 will need to learn major new programming concepts.

The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts interoperability between the Visual Basic and C# languages and dynamic languages, Microsoft’s S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the Microsoft ...