The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Today’s column is directed at the vast majority of readers who think that writing programs for one of today’s multimedia personal computers is much like performing brain surgery, only not quite as ...

Visual Basic and C# are like two peas in a programming pod. Both languages use the .NET Framework as the foundation for data and code processing, so naturally there's a lot of overlap in how they ...

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's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...