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 ...

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month.

It was only with the introduction of Microsoft's object-oriented programming language and development environment Visual Basic in the early 1990s, which was intended to drastically accelerate the ...