More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

As of April 1, Microsoft ended free professional telephone and online incident support and free critical updates, according to a posting on the company's MSDN site for developers. Both services, ...

IT is all about reinventing the wheel. More specifically, it’s about going from a plain wheel, to a wheel with bells to, a wheel with bells and whistles to a wheel with bells, whistles and a strobe ...

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

SAN FRANCISCO — ArtinSoft SA this week is launching three consulting programs designed to assist developers with migrating applications to Visual Basic .Net, the latest version of Microsoft Corp.’s ...

Although programming languages such as Java, Objective-C, and JavaScript garner the lion’s share of attention these days, don’t count out Microsoft’s Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net), which has been on a ...

Microsoft on Thursday began offering tools enabling Visual Basic developers to build applications for the Windows Phone 7 mobile phone platform. Developers can download Microsoft Visual Basic CTP ...

Microsoft on Monday released Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools, which will allow Visual Basic developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7 devices. "This release doubles the developer ...