Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its ... of other projects. Like C#, Visual Basic and F#, TypeScript is included as a first-class programming language in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

However, it’s not necessary for all .NET languages. Although Visual Basic will need it on systems ... while the F# functional programming model will be ideal for financial services and ...

Back in 2017, Microsoft published its .NET language strategy for the languages it offers for the platform, namely C#, F#, and Visual Basic ... for each of the three programming languages, along ...