In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

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 ...

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Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

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 ...

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It was a simple VBScript program that allowed 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov to grab 100 million plus credit card numbers from Target and Neiman Marcus stores. Those 100 million credit card holders are ...

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Oracle is joining Microsoft's Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program at the premier level, according to the two companies. The VSIP program enables ISV partners to ensure interoperability ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Microsoft's vice president of Developer Division S. Somasegar announced in a blog post yesterday that Visual Studio 15 and .NET 4.6 are both available for download now. Earlier this month, Microsoft ...