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 ...

The logical choice for .Net development is C#.” New features in Visual Basic 14 “may help some current Visual Basic developers, but they are not geared at gaining a new audience,” he says.

"The .Net version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic in name only," wrote developer and author Rich Levin in a recent blog entry. "Any organisation with an investment in Visual Basic code ...

C#’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds, while Visual Basic has slowly slipped down the charts, almost disappearing from the radar of popular programming query sites like Stack Overflow.

Adding a Decimal in Visual Basic. Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal.

If you're new to Visual Basic programming or looking for a primer on programming database applications with Visual Basic, then Murach's Visual Basic 6 is the book for you. Unlike other books, this ...

With SoftWIRE 2.0, a graphical programming system from ComputerBoards, novice and expert programmers alike can create sophisticated Visual Basic applications by wiring together ...