Is VB really worth the continued maintenance effort? C# is going to be popular with game developers forever thanks to XNA and Unity (and more or less deserves to be), but it's hard to imagine that VB ...

Classic Visual Basic refuses to die. There's just something about Dims and Subs that programmers won't let go of. The granddaddy of rapid application development (RAD) tools -- known for its ...

I haven't kept up with C# lately, but hearing that Microsoft is adding tuples and pattern matching to the language confirms my earlier opinion that it's basically a big kitchen sink into which ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

Low-code development tools like Microsoft’s Power Platform are more than a way for users to build the apps they need when they need them. They’re a way to rapidly building code that’s needed urgently.