The logical choice for .Net development is C#.” New features in Visual Basic 14 “may help some current Visual Basic developers, but they are not geared at gaining a new audience,” he says.

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 ...

Murach's Visual Basic 6's hands-on examples is the only way to learn the programming language.

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organization with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 in April 2010, it marked the largest update to the Microsoft flagship IDE and coding framework since the .NET Framework ...

Visual Basic also has an open design model, but it has different priorities from C#. It already supports a subset of C#’s features in its current builds as part of the release candidate of ...

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together SoftWIRE components.

Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC ...

SoftWIRE is a graphical programming add-in for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 that even inexperienced programmers can use to build useful Windows applications without writing a single line of code.

How to Create an Excel File Using Visual Basic 6.0. Microsoft announced in early 2012 that it would extend support for aging Visual Basic 6 runtimes and code syntax for the entire life cycle of ...

In-Depth Visual Basic and C# at the Crossroads How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. By ...