Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

Visual Basic development in Visual Studio 11 offers asynchronous methods, iterators, call hierarchy, the Global keyword and Windows 8 Metro-based applications. One of the primary themes in Windows 8 ...

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software, Visual ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic. More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have ...

Automatic alignment of features between the two languages is coming to an end, and C# may see faster release cycles Developers using Microsoft’s C# and Visual Basic languages can expect to see more ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

The 3 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language make up one of the largest and most cohesive developer communities in existence, but some of them now are up for grabs. No one's sure ...