An online petition gathering signatures to save Microsoft”s Visual Basic 6 programming language will not change the company”s intention to cut free support on March 31, a Microsoft representative said ...

A survey of programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language finds that many are considering a move to more modern languages, like Java and C#. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Another goal is to create a platform on which developers can more easily mix languages within a single project. Although the product achieves this goal, it does so with numerous new features, which ...