At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...

Visual Basic and C# are like two peas in a programming pod. Both languages use the .NET Framework as the foundation for data and code processing, so naturally there's a lot of overlap in how they ...

Meanwhile, Visual Studio 2015 has many programming language updates, including C#, Visual Basic, C++, and TypeScript, along with extensions for Python and Node.js.

Three new features for C# 12 are available in the latest .NET 8 and Visual Studio 17.6 previews. Microsoft, with the latest preview of its planned .NET 8 software development platform, is ...

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.