For Visual Basic users, Microsoft released version 3.0 of its Visual Basic Power Packs, this one featuring a new Data Repeater control and better Windows Form printing, among other features. Visual ...

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

Microsoft continues to develop C++ alongside C#, the language's .NET counterpart, and the company should do the same with "classic" Visual Basic and VB.Net, the petition argues.

With Visual Studio, you can create many different types of projects, such as .NET applications programmed with the Visual Basic language and standalone Windows and mobile Visual Basic programs.

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 ...

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 ...

The software is available for download at Microsoft's Web site. Since its launch five months ago, Visual Studio 2005 Express has seen 5 million downloads, according to Microsoft.

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 ...