Unfinished Business Microsoft has acknowledged that the effort to achieve feature parity between C# and Visual Basic will take years. Features like XML Literals in Visual Basic and unsafe code support ...

C# is the future for .NET developers, so it's time to limit Visual Basic’s use to on-premises legacy systems In a series of blog posts last week, Microsoft detailed fundamental changes to how it ...

Developers using Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic languages can expect to see more differentiation between them soon. Microsoft also expects to speed the release cycle for C#.

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 ...

In North America most Visual Basic developers continued to use VB6 and older versions — 45 percent of all North American developers, compared with 34 percent for Visual Basic.Net.

This feature is described as a “compiler feature that lets C# developers inspect user code and generate new C# source files that can be added to a compilation.” ...

Microsoft in 2017 outlined that it was departing from its historical "co-evolution strategy" for Visual Basic and C#. Visual Basic, it said, was used by hundreds of thousands of people, most of ...

Code Compare lets you Compare and Merge Source Codes. Checking lines of code for errors manually is never an easy task, but with the free tool, it becomes easy.

The development environment itself has seen some love. The C# and Visual Basic code editors now use the open source Roslyn compiler framework behind the scenes. This is an extensible framework ...

In-Depth Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads 05/01/2011 When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 in April 2010, it marked the largest update to the Microsoft ...