How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

Long live the programming language that is still running strong well into the second half of its third decade. What might help it is a provision for VB-based .NET Core and .NET Standard libraries in ...

Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

Many VB programmers don't understand the graphics capabilities of Visual Basic when you use basic API calls. This (and a series of forthcoming tutorials) will explain the basics of getting and setting ...

Alternate Microsoft.VisualBasic runtime created to support ease-of-use VisualBasic .NET 5.x, .NET 6.x and .NET 7.x development for non-WinForms projects (.net standard 2.x, console, cross-platform, ...

Microsoft said this week that it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5.0 but will no longer add new features or evolve the language. “Starting with .NET 5, Visual Basic will support Class Library, ...

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