The more savvy Visual Basic users fire it up to write saleable software and to turn out Visual Basic programming at work that lets them hold down decently paying jobs on the corporate scene.

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

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 ...

Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to the Visual Basic .Net programming language carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, ArtinSoft executive vice president, based in San Jose, Costa Rica.

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 ...

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 ...