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 ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

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 ...

A panel of top Microsoft developers professed their preference for old-school development methods and offered opinions on what’s next for programmers. Microsoft Corp. has done more to popularize ...

SoftWIRE.NET from SoftWIRE Technology provides a graphical alternative to using conventional programming languages to develop applications for Microsoft's .NET. The .NET environment runs a plethora of ...

Visual programming and vision are separate issues, but both will be big this year. Likewise, multicore systems are pushing the demands on parallel programming and virtualization, which also is ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...

Microsoft Corp. has done more to popularize graphical programming than any other vendor. The company's development tools, led by Visual Basic and Visual Studio, have been used by millions of software ...