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What are we going to do with all this Visual Basic? If you’re a project manager with a portfolio of Visual Basic applications to maintain, that’s no idle question. Microsoft’s newest version of its ...

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 ...

Microsoft first announced plans to retire the Visual Basic Scripting language in 2023, giving developers and organizations ample time to prepare. The company is now reiterating ...

"While .NET Core has had Visual Basic since the first release, and WinForms since it was released in .NET Core 3.1, it did not include the Application Framework library and WinForms Designer support ...

C# is the future for .NET developers, so it's time to limit Visual Basic’s use to on-premises legacy systems In a series of blog posts last week, Microsoft detailed fundamental changes to how it ...

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

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 ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...