More than 100 of the software giant's most influential developers urge the company to continue support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

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 ...

Microsoft has reminded customers about the ongoing deprecation of VBScript in Windows, explaining what to do with legacy VBA ...

Microsoft's popular Visual Basic development language--used by about half of all professional programmers--may be on the wane, according to a new study. Market researcher Evans Data said Tuesday ...

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 ...

Survey finds Visual Basic developers are moving to Microsoft's upgraded Visual Basic .Net as well as to Java and other language alternatives.

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 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 on the new smartphone platform. The ...

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.