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.

Microsoft's Visual Basic programming language has variable types for three different kinds of numbers: integer, floating-point and decimal. Integer variables range from a short 2-byte format to a long ...

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 ...

The VB and C# languages have a lot in common, and developers who specialize in one often find themselves having to write or manipulate code written in the other. Our discussion also covered the need ...

Well, I didn't USED to be a novice. In fact, I have over 30 years of program development under my belt.<BR><BR>I worked mostly in legacy COBOL, C and C# back in DOS6 days, and most recently ...