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 programming in the enterprise ...

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 ...

"We don't expect Java's growth to come at the expense of Visual Basic or C++," said Mark Driver, Gartner Group's research director in Atlanta. Instead, Driver is seeing more of a combination of ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

It incorporates quite a few of the best features of Visual Basic and Visual C++ but feels somehow more like Visual Interdev than either of the former. Of course, the fact that there is one unified ...

followed by C/C++ at 40 percent, and C# at 32 percent.” Microsoft said the Evans study is not necessarily indicative of the Visual Basic situation. Michael ONeill, developer tools Product ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

The very first programming language I used back in high school did not permit variable names longer than two characters. Visual Basic and C# have more reasonable limits, but naming conflicts with ...

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 ...

Visual Basic dropped from 13th to 14th place from last ... Java (20.846 percent rating), C (13.905), C++ (5.918), C# (3.796), and Python (3.33). In this month’s PyPL Popularity of Programming ...

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software ...