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 ...

Yet this month's TIOBE Programming Community Index, which measures the popularity of programming languages, reports that Visual Basic .NET has cracked the top 10 for the first time ever, right between ...

Visual Basic .NET is the successor of Microsoft's well-beloved classic Visual Basic 6.0 version. Since Visual Basic .NET needed to run on Microsoft's .NET platform, the language has changed ...

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 ...

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away as the Windows giant announced support for Visual Basic in its upcoming .NET 5.0. There has long been a low rumbling of developers disappointed to find that ...

Microsoft's oft-maligned Visual Basic .NET programming language was the big mover in the December TIOBE Programming Community index, which gauges programming language popularity. In fact, VB.NET was ...

Although Visual Basic will need it on systems that don’t have the full .NET Framework, C# will be able to address platforms like .NET Core directly, accessing its APIs.

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.

Introduction to programming with Visual Basic .NET by Bronson, Gary J. Publication date 2005 Topics Visual Basic, BASIC (Computer program language), Microsoft .NET Framework Publisher Sudbury, Mass. : ...

Code developed for the .NET Framework is referred to as managed code, and contains metadata that is used by the CLR.Data used by .NET Framework applications is called managed data because the runtime ...