That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Author of the Tiobe monthly language popularity index sees both Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net dropping from the top 10 within a year Microsoft’s Visual Basic is slipping in the Tiobe index ...

Visual Basic, just like Visual Studio, will be skipping directly from version 12 to version 14. Though many of these features are also new to C#, there are quite a few enhancements meant ...

The 3 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language make up one of the largest and most cohesive developer communities in existence, but some of them now are up for grabs.

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Microsoft’s version of BASIC was one of the first programming languages that the general public came into contact with, ...

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 ...

Dynamic Support Visual Basic 2010 adds late-binding support to the Dynamic Language Runtime, which offers access to objects from dynamic languages such as IronPython and IronRuby. Simply create an ...

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.

Although Visual Basic has been considered a language for newer programmers and rapid prototyping, it has a bad image among expert programmers, Tiobe maintains. This made it surprising that Visual ...

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#.