Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic.

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

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 ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

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 ...

But MVPs hope Microsoft will reconsider not just VB6's support options, but will continue to develop the language alongside its newer Visual Basic.Net. "By providing a new version of a COM-based ...

With Visual Studio, you can create many different types of projects, such as .NET applications programmed with the Visual Basic language and standalone Windows and mobile Visual Basic programs.