Microsoft increases the cost of support services for Visual Basic 6, a move that has angered some developers and prompted one development-tool vendor to offer a competing product at no charge.

More than 100 of the software giant's most influential developers urge the company to continue support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company’s intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft ...

An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft”s Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company”s intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft representative said ...

Visual Basic .Net is considered more object-oriented than its predecessor and offers developers the ability to build multithreaded applications, distributed computing applications and Windows ...

Microsoft has initiated an early launch of the Visual Basic programming language for Windows Phone 7 developers. The aim is to help developers get to grips with the development environment ahead ...

Microsoft's decision to end standard support for the popular development tool by month's end has sparked an outcry from developers.

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 ...

Of those developers who said they would stick with Visual Basic, one-third said they plan to upgrade to Visual Basic.Net 2003. Microsoft developed C# as an alternative to Java in 2000.

Microsoft on Monday released Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools, which will allow Visual Basic developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7 devices.

And even usage among Visual Basic developers is lower, according to the survey. So where have Visual Basic users been going? “C# use is increasing dramatically.