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The company has just updated its strategy for C#, F#, and Visual Basic, committing to performance and stability for all three languages. Microsoft’s latest strategy for its .NET languages—C#, F#, and ...

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In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...

Readers respond to the May cover story (".NET at the Crossroads") on the direction of C# and Visual Basic: In my opinion, the claim that C# is for more mathematical and scientific purposes is ...

A short time ago, we asked Builder.com members what questions they would ask Microsoft's .NET platform team if given the opportunity. We received quite a few suggestions, and after judicious use of ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...