How the Microsoft co-evolution strategy has shaped the two flagship languages of the .NET Framework, and what it means for developers going forward. When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the ...

The C# and Visual Basic access modifiers let you indicate the level of interpersonal relationships your type member can have. Whether they're Private, Public or something else, each modifier makes ...

Visual Studio Async aims to make asynchronous programming more approachable so code is as easy to write and maintain as with synchronous code Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages ...

Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous ...

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Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...