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#.

Microsoft’s Visual Basic is about to sprout some powerful legs this year in the form of Visual Basic.Net. Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application ...

Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .Net carries its burdens, acknowledged Federico Zoufaly, executive vice president at San Jose, Costa Rica-based ArtinSoft. “Actually, .Net is a ...

An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company’s intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic.Net language, which brought Visual Basic to the .Net Framework, has just hit an all-time high in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. But is it just a ...

Paul Vick, a principal architect on Visual Basic, is moving over to Microsoft's broad software modeling initiative known as "Oslo." Vick, who helped Microsoft deliver its popular VB tool set, will ...