The launch of Visual Studio.Net (VS.Net) marks the official debut of Microsoft .Net, the ambitious, bet-the-company initiative that aspires to weave a fabric of XML-enabled software and services ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

My college-age daughter is dipping her toes into the world of entrepreneurship. During her summer break, she'll be opening and managing a direct sales office for Cutco kitchen products. To help ensure ...

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, brackets ...

Rational Software Corp. unveiled several new tools and features during its annual user conference last week, including a version of its visual design and modeling tool that will work with Microsoft ...

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 ...