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 ...

The problem, say the dissenting developers, is that when Microsoft made Visual Basic.Net (or Visual Basic 7) the successor to VB6, it actually killed one language and replaced it with a ...

The company goes back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes.

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic 'with a future' for all platforms.

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

With a nod to the past success of macro viruses, more than a quarter of all document malware now spreads via Microsoft's Visual Basic scripting language.

Author of the Tiobe monthly language popularity index sees both Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net dropping from the top 10 within a year Microsoft’s Visual Basic is slipping in the Tiobe index ...

Microsoft is marking this month as the 25th birthday of its Visual Basic language with an eye toward future upgrades. The company is planning a marathon Silver Anniversary Celebration, said ...