OK, raise your hands: Do you do your data programming in Visual Basic .NET? If I was a speaker at a development conference and asked that question, I'd expect to be squinting to see the results. Yet ...

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 temporary ...

With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

Although programming languages such as Java, Objective-C, and JavaScript garner the lion’s share of attention these days, don’t count out Microsoft’s Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net), which has been on a ...

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Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

The launch of Visual Studio.Net (VS.Net) marks the official debut of Microsoft .Net, the ambitious, bet-the-company initiative that aspires to weave a fabric of XML-enabled software and services ...

What are we going to do with all this Visual Basic? If you’re a project manager with a portfolio of Visual Basic applications to maintain, that’s no idle question. Microsoft’s newest version of its ...

Given the unpredictable nature of today’s market climate, many software-oriented companies are scrambling to cut costs and streamline their application development processes. For organizations ...

The 3 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language make up one of the largest and most cohesive developer communities in existence, but some of them now are up for grabs. No one's sure ...