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 ...

C# 7 is due to be released with the next version of Visual Studio; Microsoft previewed this version, dubbed the “15” release, last week. C# 6.0 was released in July 2015 along with the Visual ...

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 ...

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 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 previewing an extension for Visual Studio Code to improve C# developer productivity in Linux, MacOS, and Windows.. The C# Dev Kit extension, unveiled June 6, brings an improved ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...

Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...