Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem a bit long in the tooth compared to newer languages like Java, PHP, or Apple’s six-month-old Swift.

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding Microsoft reconsiders plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

The Visual Studio Code product itself ships under a standard Microsoft product license, as it has a small percentage of Microsoft-specific customizations. It’s free despite the commercial license.

Microsoft’s newest version of its flagship programming language, Visual Basic .Net (VB .Net), is a huge leap forward, re-creating Visual Basic as a full-fledged object-oriented programming ...

Unlike other books, this one concentrates on Microsoft's newest data access technology ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). It also goes into great detail on how ADO integrates with the Visual Basic IDE.

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

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 ...

One issue that may impact Visual Basic adoption among .NET developers is the level of support Microsoft provides to Visual Basic relative to C#. Leslie Koohan, a .NET trainer in Kansas City who ...

Not that VB6 enthusiasts are totally out of luck. Last August, we covered a "Free Tool Offered as Classic Visual Basic Successor" from B4J. VB6 supporters couldn't help opening up old wounds in the ...

But MVPs hope Microsoft will reconsider not just VB6's support options, but will continue to develop the language alongside its newer Visual Basic.Net.