Visual Basic development in Visual Studio 11 offers asynchronous methods, iterators, call hierarchy, the Global keyword and Windows 8 Metro-based applications. One of the primary themes in Windows 8 ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous ...

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Hello Ars,<BR><BR>Visual Studio makes it incredibly easy for me to make GUI programs in Visual Basic and Visual C#. I've always wondered, is using Visual Basic/C#, dropping controls onto a form and ...

Jeremiah is a US-based blogger who bought a Nexus One the day it came out and never looked back. In his spare time he watches Star Trek, cooks eggs, and completely fails to write novels. The majority ...

Visual Studio 2008, codenamed Orcas, has been in development since before the release of its predecessor, Visual Studio 2005. The new version is aimed at, and has been developed alongside, Windows ...