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, brackets ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

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 ...

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 programming language `` Visual Basic '' developed by Microsoft was at the peak of popularity for a while, but at the time of writing the article, it has become an inconspicuous existence. About ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

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REDMOND, Wash., March 5, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the Visual Studio® .NET Open Tools Platform, a set of three core technologies that enable developers, independent software vendors (ISVs ...