Advantage Visual Basic. 47 years ago, on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC program ran at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. BASIC, or Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, was designed by ...

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 ...

An Evans Data study says the use of Microsoft's Visual Basic development platform has fallen dramatically due in part to use of Java and scripting languages.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

According to IDC, out of 13.1 million developer seats worldwide in 1999, Visual Basic had 7.2 million vs. 3.6 million C/C++ seats and 1.3 million Java seats. By 2003, Visual Basic should still be ...

Visual Basic dropped from 13th to 14th place from last month to this month; it had been ninth a year ago. Ratings for Visual Basic .Net and Visual Basic in April were at 2.273 percent and 1.607 ...

REDMOND, Wash. — May 10, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. and Developer Express Inc. today announced the availability of Refactor! for Visual Basic® 2005, a no-cost plug-in that brings refactoring to Microsoft® ...

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, Visual ...

At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, 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 ...