When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework ... ushered in a critical change in strategy for Microsoft's premier programming languages, C# and Visual Basic .NET. For ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual ... has seen that Visual Basic has twice the share of new developers in Visual Studio as it does ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages ... principal program manager at Microsoft, in a recent blog post: “These decisions ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know ... it would end the co-evolution of Visual Basic and C# and focus on "core scenarios and domains" where Visual Basic ...

program manager for .NET and Visual Studio, in an announcement this week in OmniSharp’s GitHub repo. Moving forward, plans call for the C# extension to communicate entirely using LSP while ...

"Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language." Microsoft in 2017 outlined that it was departing from its historical "co-evolution strategy" for Visual Basic and C#.

At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...