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 ...

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.

Visual Basic.NET is getting comfortable in its new position as a top five programming language in the TIOBE index, which measures popularity based on search engine data. After hitting a high in the ...

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named "Programming Language of the ...

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 ...

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

Like all programming languages ... 64-bit Windows operating systems newer than Vista. When you deploy a Visual Basic.NET Web application, any Web surfer can view it using any browser.

Years ago, when I first learned to program in BASIC ... just a few more features had been added. With Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft introduced a new, object-oriented method for working with ...

It was supplanted by Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2002 ... While VB.NET continues to evolve, it's just not the same. In fact, recent programming popularity indices reported it ...