But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software, Visual ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...

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 ...

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I wish Microsoft had gone a little further in this direction. It’s too bad that Microsoft didn’t also provide targeting for .Net Framework 1.1 and easy bidirectional conversion between VS08, VS05, and ...

"The Microsoft Visual Studio development system is a suite of development tools designed to aid software developers - whether they are novices or seasoned professionals - face complex challenges and ...