Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

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 ...

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

In summary, Visual Studio Code is a fast, free programming editor that supports most if not all of the software development lifecycle. VS Code has tens of thousands of plug-ins and supports ...

No, it's fifth most popular programming language Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net reaches an all-time high on a popularity index. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 3, 2018 at 5:20 a.m. PT ...

Offered as a free download, Visual Basic 2010 Express is the only version of Basic that the company now ships. At one point, Microsoft had been pushing the Kid’s Programming Language, but the ...

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

Programs written in Visual Basic 6.0 can access Microsoft Access 2003 databases. Knowledge of programming elements, such as functions and loops, and knowledge of databases and SQL is required to write ...