Like C#, Visual Basic and F#, TypeScript is included as a first-class programming language in Microsoft Visual Studio. Other TypeScript users include Google, which used TypeScript to build Angular 2.

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 10 and C# 4 will gain interoperability with dynamic languages. Programmers, for example, could tap into a JavaScript engine in an ASP.Net application, according to Massi.

On May 1st, the BASIC programming language, first developed by Dartmouth College Professors Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, celebrates 50 years. At the time, computers were highly serial.

Its descendent, Microsoft Visual Basic, is “limited to Windows, which leaves out the growing contingent of Mac and Linux users,” Ceder says. As for other free starter languages, Ceder says he ...

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 ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technologist for Microsoft's Azure, reflects on bringing AI from cloud to edge, a process that in over time may look like a very big Visual Basic app.