At the time, Wiltamuth wrote, Microsoft wanted Visual Basic .NET to appeal to Visual Basic 6 developers focused on business- and data-centric applications, while C# targeted Java and C++ developers ...

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 Studio Async aims to make asynchronous programming more approachable so code is as easy to write and maintain as with synchronous code Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages ...

Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, ...

C# 7 is due to be released with the next version of Visual Studio; Microsoft previewed this version, dubbed the “15” release, last week. C# 6.0 was released in July 2015 along with the Visual ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces ...

Microsoft in 2017 outlined that it was departing from its historical "co-evolution strategy" for Visual Basic and C#. Visual Basic, it said, was used by hundreds of thousands of people, most of ...

RemObjects Mercury refreshes Visual Basic for .NET by adding support for current .NET features while also making it available for more platforms, including WebAssembly, iOS, Android, and Linux.

No, it's fifth most popular programming language Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net reaches an all-time high on a popularity index. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 3, 2018 at 5:20 a.m. PT ...