The more savvy Visual Basic users fire it up to write saleable software and to turn out Visual Basic programming at work ... to write documents and keep the books. Almost all of the wonderstuff ...

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 ...

In fact, recent programming popularity indices reported it has fallen off in developer mindshare. Throughout the years, however, many derivatives of VB have been created, and variations such as Visual ...