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 ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Microsoft has gone back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes. Microsoft has been developing a new version of ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Microsoft has initiated an early launch of the Visual Basic programming language for Windows Phone 7 developers. The aim is to help developers get to grips with the development environment ahead of ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

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 of ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...