Tiobe analysts said it was "very surprising" that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind C++, Python, C, and Java. It's even ahead of JavaScript, which currently ...

Visual Basic (classic, as opposed to VB.NET ... "TypeScript is a strict superset of JavaScript, which means you can use it together with your existing JavaScript. But it adds a lot of extra type ...

Microsoft has introduced new JavaScript-based macroing capabilities to some Office programs, but nothing with the same mix of capabilities and ease of use that Visual Basic for Applications has.

The successor to WSH, Windows PowerShell, is programmed with C# and Visual Basic .NET, but it can host WSH scripts, including those written in JavaScript. Over and over, on the client as well as on ...

The Visual Basic 9.0 programming language “will offer ... including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go.

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

Brace pair colorization, which helps distinguish opening and closing braces for code, is supported for C#, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Visual Basic, and Razor. An enhanced spell checker checks C# ...

A version of the BASIC programming language from Microsoft specialized for developing Windows applications. When first released in 1991, it was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC. With its visual ...

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 ...

A new survey by Evans Data shows that developers are surrendering their Visual Basic tools in exchange for Java. After questioning 430 North American developers during the spring of 2006 ...