The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language targets both beginning and experienced developers alike. Paul Vick explains how VB works clearly and concisely, and he covers data types, conversions, ...

Microsoft’s Visual Basic is about to sprout some powerful legs this year in the form of Visual Basic.Net. Companies planning to adopt Visual Basic.Net will be able to leverage application capabilities ...

Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month will discuss a variety of upcoming technologies, including Visual Basic 9.0 and the .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.

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 ...

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 ...

The launch of Visual Studio.Net (VS.Net) marks the official debut of Microsoft .Net, the ambitious, bet-the-company initiative that aspires to weave a fabric of XML-enabled software and services ...

Yesterday during its annual user conference, Rational Software Corp. announced that its visual design and modeling tool will soon work with Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Basic .Net and ASP.Net development ...

Visual Basic .NET continues in the great tradition that Visual Basic began more than 10 years ago. It makes developing Windows applications easy and quick. An event-driven variation of the original ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. Microsoft remains "firm" in its plans to end free support ...