TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, a full-featured IDE with built-in AI tools and collaboration features, is ...

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 has released the second preview version for .NET 11.0, bringing, among other things, innovations for asynchronous programming. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief Technology Expert at ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

The latest offering of Visual Studio contains many features. It has come a long way since it was released. Well, let’s just quickly dive in on how a beginner can get started with VS. So, first of all, ...

.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem, providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated ...

Abstract: With Microsoftpsilas extended support for Visual Basic (VB) 6.0 ending this year, many application developers are looking for guidance on whether to upgrade, reuse, rewrite, or replace their ...

More small business owners than you might think are creating and writing their own software programs, and many times their first programming baby steps involve the use of Visual Basic for Applications ...

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...

I spent 3 years to get sVB so far: Half a year to make small Basic videos and discover its downsides, 2 years to create Small Visual Basic and evolve it, and half a year to write its full reference ...

This book is intended for school students and others learning to program in Visual Basic. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming, electronics, Visual Basic or the Visual Studio environment.

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 is now live. It is the first release of the IDE to have native support for Arm64, and it also packs the latest version of .NET. A preview for version 17.5 is ready too.