Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. Microsoft remains "firm" in its plans to end free support ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

In response to developer feedback, Microsoft Corp. has retreated from some changes to Visual Basic.Net. Microsoft had planned to make the modifications to make Visual Basic (VB) consistent with other ...

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 ...

"I think we can say that VB.NET finally made it to ASP.NET Core," developer Mohammed Hamdy Ghanem told Visual Studio Magazine about his new open-source project. The project, eShopOnWeb in VB.NET (.NET ...

COMMENTARY--Given the speed at which technology changes, the world is much different than it was even five years ago. Consider this, for example: By the end of the year, two platforms--J2EE and ...