Visual Basic and C#: A new divergence is coming. With last week’s announcement, that co-evolution is gone. Microsoft will let the two languages go different ways, starting with the soon-to-be ...

While Visual Basic instantiates all local variables when a method first begins, C# instantiates inner-scoped variables (like passFactor) only when that inner scope is accessed by the code. In this ...

Now Visual Basic 14 developers get parity: select some code, right-click and select Quick Actions. A light bulb menu appears with all (and only) appropriate refactorings you can apply to the selected ...

Version 14 of nearly 24-year-old language features enhancements for catching errors, but it's unlikely to draw new developers Visual Basic, originally released by Microsoft in early 1991, may seem ...