But there are signs of new life in the VB ecosystem, most recently on the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) side of things. This week saw a couple of improvements to Rubberduck, a project to upgrade ...

Microsoft with its Roslyn .Net compiler project is getting ready to upgrade its C# and Visual Basic languages. Tough decisions have been made about the feature sets of the two languages, said Mads ...

In this space, I typically write about tools that help you build, manage, test or deploy software development projects. The one part of the project I've mostly ignored thus far is perhaps the most ...

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Microsoft's .NET platform changes the face of Visual Basic programming. The first major step in the .NET strategy was the release of the new development suite, Visual Studio.NET. The development ...

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 ...