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 ...

How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of users with heavy investments in Visual Basic 6 code have urged Microsoft Corp. to reconsider its 3-year-old decision to end mainstream support for the development environment at the end of ...