While Visual Basic instantiates all local variables when a method first begins, C# instantiates inner-scoped variables (like passFactor) only when that inner scope is accessed by the code. In this ...

Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...

Visual Basic and C#: A new divergence is coming. With last week’s announcement, that co-evolution is gone. Microsoft will let the two languages go different ways, starting with the soon-to-be ...

Developers using Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic languages can expect to see more differentiation between them soon. Microsoft also expects to speed the release cycle for C#.

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 ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...

This book was created to help you master the .Net Framework Version 2.0 using either Visual Basic or C#, and to help you become a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist by passing the 70-536 ...

Visual Basic .Net's continued ascent comes despite Microsoft last year announcing it would end the co-evolution of Visual Basic and C# and focus on "core scenarios and domains" where Visual Basic ...

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.

Visual Basic 16.9 Language Features The first VB 16.9 feature is support for Default Interface Methods . This highly controversial C# 8 feature allows new methods to be added to interfaces with an ...