A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
ZDNet

Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to .NET 5

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 Studio Magazine

VB.NET Hits High in Programming Language Popularity Index

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.
Houston Chronicle

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. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hidden Improvements in Visual Basic 11

In my January article "Visual Basic Improvements in Visual Studio 11," I presented the major enhancements to Visual Basic 11 that appear in the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Key improvements include the ...
Computerworld

How are students learning programming in a post-Basic world?

For years, the lingua franca for desktop computers was the Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a.k.a. Basic. Essentially every PC had it, and just about anyone could learn to program ...