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 ...

TIOBE, in discussing Visual Basic's all-time high in the popularity index, characterized the ascension of the 'toy' language as 'surprising' and predicted a future decline.

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

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 .NET has cracked the top 10 of a programming popularity index for the first time ever.

Basic Requirements Like all programming languages, VB.NET is nothing more than text that you type into a text editor. Computers convert that text into instructions that they can execute.

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace.

VB.Net grew from 16 percent of EMEA developers in the autumn of 2002 to 32 percent in late 2004, with 43 percent of EMEA developers using some form of Visual Basic, the survey found.

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 ...