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 ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you folks consider the best visual programming language (i.e. a language in which you write code visually via a drag and drop or other mechanism not something like Visual Basic)? I have a ...

Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its stable of programming languages, including .NET cross-platform support and its own JavaScript flavor. Explore Microsoft’s top programming languages now ...

Coding Dojo annually scans Indeed to review the top programming languages based on job postings. The report spanned 524,149 global job postings that required knowledge of a specific language. Some of ...

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 ...

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