A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

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 ...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) is the current incarnation of the company’s long line of IDEs. It’s the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and, at least, a ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). The release was announced by S. "Soma" Somasegar, senior vice president of ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...

Visual Basic 5.0 Intensive Certification Preparation is run by JB International. It is a five-day course for people with very little knowledge of Visual Basic and costs #1,249. The student Paulette ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

I wish Microsoft had gone a little further in this direction. It’s too bad that Microsoft didn’t also provide targeting for .Net Framework 1.1 and easy bidirectional conversion between VS08, VS05, and ...