More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

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 ...

The programming language `` Visual Basic '' developed by Microsoft was at the peak of popularity for a while, but at the time of writing the article, it has become an inconspicuous existence. About ...

Until today, Microsoft's advice to developers interested in writing Windows Phone 7 applications was to use C#, Silverlight or XNA. But on September 23, Microsoft officials said they'd be adding ...

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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 ...

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 ...