In fact, Visual Basic has dropped from the top five to the top 10 in the past few years, Jansen said. “If we extrapolate this trend, then it will be out of the top 10 within a year.

Microsoft’s Visual Basic.Net language, which brought Visual Basic to the .Net Framework, has just hit an all-time high in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. But is it just a ...

The fact that Google adopted TypeScript next to its own JavaScript variant language Dart is proof that TypeScript has a bright future." In total, Visual Studio provides first-class support for six of ...

The successor to WSH, Windows PowerShell, is programmed with C# and Visual Basic .NET, but it can host WSH scripts, including those written in JavaScript. Over and over, on the client as well as on ...

The questions plaguing users of Microsoft Excel—JavaScript support, slow Mac development cycles, the lack of Easter eggs—all apparently come down to one thing: prioritizing developer resources ...

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.

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 ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ...

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 ...