More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding Microsoft reconsiders plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

Microsoft increases the cost of support services for Visual Basic 6, a move that has angered some developers and prompted one development-tool vendor to offer a competing product at no charge.

Microsoft has started letting developers build and release applications for Windows Phone 7 using Visual Basic, potentially opening the door to more applications.

An Evans Data study says the use of Microsoft's Visual Basic development platform has fallen dramatically due in part to use of Java and scripting languages.

Visual Basic .Net is considered more object-oriented than its predecessor and offers developers the ability to build multithreaded applications, distributed computing applications and Windows ...

Although programming languages such as Java, Objective-C, and JavaScript garner the lion's share of attention these days, don't count out Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net), which has been on ...

Michael Flynn, Microsoft Canada’s Mississauga, Ont., marketing manager for developer tools said that while developers using Beta 1 of Visual Basic.NET had some difficulty in migrating ...

Today Microsoft announced that developers interested in building applications for Windows Phone 7 can now use Visual Basic to do so, in addition to the previously supported platforms of C# ...

Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools include templates and emulator support Microsoft on Thursday began offering tools enabling Visual Basic developers to build ...

Plug-in enables developers to simplify and restructure source code inside Visual Basic 2005.