Microsoft executives said they originally made the Visual Basic changes to make the language work better with other development languages and to make the programming syntax more consistent with ...

Developers have persuaded Microsoft to return to the drawing board to rejigger the Visual Basic programming language.

What do you folks consider the best visual programming language (i.e. a language in which you write code visually via a drag and drop or other mechanism not something like Visual Basic)? I have a ...

A new "visual programming language" called Impure aims to open up the wild world of data visualization to non-coders.

The software and 32-bit Active X controls let developers use languages such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, Visual C++.NET, and Visual C#.NET.

TIOBE, in discussing Visual Basic's all-time high in the popularity index, characterized the ascension of the 'toy' language as 'surprising' and predicted a future decline.

Visual Studio developers who want to program in non-native languages can now write their own extensions to do so with new support (in preview) for the Language Server Protocol, catching up to existing ...

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Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week. Visual Basic 10 and C# 4 are both due ...

Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...