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 ...

Database Programming with C# by Carsten Thomsen Apress ISBN: 1590590104 Price: $54.95 Quick Facts: Covers a wide range of topics, including basic consumption of ADO.NET, accessing LDAP data, working ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

C# and F# are languages, each with growing user bases, that approach functional programming in fundamentally different ways. C# relies on object-oriented, imperative principles, and F# relies on ...

Systems programming also implies demanding performance and reliability requirements. Joe Duffy, engineering director at Microsoft, presented strategies for system programming in C# at QCon New York.

The runners up were Scratch (+0.83%), a visual programming language that allows students to create interactive stories, games, and animations; and Fortran (+0.64%), the venerable a high-level language ...