Microsoft introduced the first version of its Visual Basic language in May 1991 at the Spring Comdex trade show in Atlanta. After six generations of the original product, the development platform ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

An integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft for coding Windows applications. Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship language product, which enables any programming language to be ...

Microsoft's oft-maligned Visual Basic .NET programming language was the big mover in the December TIOBE Programming Community index, which gauges programming language popularity. In fact, VB.NET was ...

Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but ...

Before we dig into the details of Visual Basic .NET, let s take a look at an overview of all the changes and new features. This new release is a significant change from the previous version. It will ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

Microsoft says the next major upgrade to its flagship IDE will be faster, more streamlined, more intelligent, and 64-bit, making out-of-memory exceptions a thing of the past. Microsoft has big plans ...

The developers, members of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program which recognizes influential members of the developer community, claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual ...