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 updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

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 ...

The Visual Basic and C# teams “were merged last year, and it’s called the Visual Studio managed languages team,” said Beth Massi, senior program manager at Microsoft, during the VSLive ...

Another DECLINED UserVoice post asks Microsoft to " Provide a Visual Basic 6 Community edition - to allow free download of the VB6 programming language." "We have no plans to release a new incarnation ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a ...

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 ...

VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is a programming language similar to Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and was introduced ...

Figure 1. NSB/AppStudio is a drag-and-drop IDE for mobile Web and mobile hybrid app development, very much in the spirit of Microsoft Visual Basic.