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 ...

TIOBE Index has released its list of top programming languages for December 2018 with a surprising finding that Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET is moving up the ranks.

Visual Basic .NET is the successor of Microsoft's well-beloved classic Visual Basic 6.0 version. Since Visual Basic .NET needed to run on Microsoft's .NET platform, the language has changed ...

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic "with a future" for all platforms. The "with a future" description refers to Microsoft's 2020 announcement ...

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 ...

In North America most Visual Basic developers continued to use VB6 and older versions — 45 percent of all North American developers, compared with 34 percent for Visual Basic.Net.

Offered as a free download, Visual Basic 2010 Express is the only version of Basic that the company now ships. At one point, Microsoft had been pushing the Kid’s Programming Language, but the ...