If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2002 — The September 11 attacks that toppled the World Trade Center towers in New York also severely damaged a nearby building owned by Verizon Communications Inc. Millions of ...

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 ...

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C# is the future for .NET developers, so it's time to limit Visual Basic’s use to on-premises legacy systems In a series of blog posts last week, Microsoft detailed fundamental changes to how it ...

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 ...

FEBRUARY 13, 2002 -- Billing it as nothing less than the "most comprehensive development tool of all time," Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today rolled out the long anticipated Visual ...