In the December 2018 index, Visual Basic .Net now ranks fifth, the highest it's ever been since the company started tracking the Microsoft language in 2001. A year ago Visual Basic .Net was ranked ...

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 has highlighted the UI changes coming to Visual Studio 2022, including new iconography, fonts, improvement to dark theme, color contrast adjustments, accent color modifications, and more.

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with 'classic' Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

The running theme is flat, simplistic, basic icons that are very colorful. The reaction has been similar to when Microsoft first introduced its Luna visual style to Windows XP.

Visual Basic, especially "classic" VB, attracted a loyal following, with many projects (like this from 2015) emerging over the years devoted to keeping it alive despite Microsoft having moved on in ...

While competitors are coming up with new, "modern" programming languages, Microsoft continues to evolve its tried and true languages such as Visual Basic and C#, with new features -- including ...

Microsoft is ending support for the Visual Basic 6.0 integrated development environment. Jeff Nuckolls, a Microsoft blogger, in an April 3 post said that the IDE will no longer be supported as of ...