The company goes back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes.

Developers have persuaded Microsoft to return to the drawing board to rejigger the Visual Basic programming language.

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Visual Basic will largely freeze in place in terms of adding new programming language features, but the code will be compatible with future releases of .NET, Microsoft's flagship programming ...

TIOBE, in discussing Visual Basic's all-time high in the popularity index, characterized the ascension of the 'toy' language as 'surprising' and predicted a future decline.

Visual Studio developers who want to program in non-native languages can now write their own extensions to do so with new support (in preview) for the Language Server Protocol, catching up to existing ...

The software and 32-bit Active X controls let developers use languages such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, Visual C++.NET, and Visual C#.NET.

A new "visual programming language" called Impure aims to open up the wild world of data visualization to non-coders.