The 2010 releases also ushered in a critical change in strategy for Microsoft's premier programming languages, C# and Visual Basic .NET. For the first time since Microsoft retired the unmanaged Visual ...

The two object-oriented languages have shared programming concepts and ... this approach of doing everything to Visual Basic that we’re doing to C# just sort of automatically doesn’t seem ...

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 ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

Microsoft’s C# programming language earned the rank of ... the growth of C# comes at the expense of C and Basic, and the growth of Python is at the expense of Perl. In December, TIOBE reported ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features ... versions of languages like Microsoft's own C# would add complexity that would undermine the ...

Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous ...

C#: Used in app, game ... good for back-end development and working with APIs and web services. Visual Basic: A programming language with a drag-and-drop user interface that is good for front ...