Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

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 ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

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.

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

60 years ago, the inventors of the BASIC programming language actually achieved what they had hoped for: simple programming that is accessible to everyone. At 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964, the first BASIC ...