Microsoft’s Visual Basic is about to sprout some powerful legs this year in the form of Visual Basic.Net. Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application capabilities ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

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 ...

Rational Software Corp. unveiled several new tools and features during its annual user conference last week, including a version of its visual design and modeling tool that will work with Microsoft ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...