Tiobe analysts said it was "very surprising" that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind C++, Python, C, and Java.

As a .NET developer, you know that the obvious grammatical descendant of the C language is Visual Basic. At least, that's the case if you're talking about local static variables. In C, static ...

Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous ...

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 ...

Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages with an asynchronous programming model to help developers accommodate the growing complexity in applications.

Visual Basic makes it especially easy to intercept and process these nearly lost exceptions through its Windows Application Framework. When supported by a specific project type, the framework enables ...