Last month, Microsoft announced it will no longer add new language features to its Visual Basic programming language, first released in 1991. Visual Basic is an upgraded version of the BASIC ...

In fact, this is the fourth name change in the progression of the C language. What started out as B has gone to C, then to C++, and now to C#. If you count the full history, Visual Basic has really ...

"Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language." Microsoft in 2017 outlined that it was departing from its historical "co-evolution strategy" for Visual Basic and C#.

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 ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic.Net language, which brought Visual Basic to the .Net Framework, has just hit an all-time high in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. But is it just a ...

TIOBE Index has released its list of top programming languages for December 2018 with a surprising finding that Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET is moving up the ranks.

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