Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

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 ...

Though not nearly as popular; VB.NET is as functional a development language as C# (indeed, both compile to the same intermediate code and there are only a handful of functional differences, such as ...