Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month will discuss a variety of upcoming technologies, including Visual Basic 9.0 and the .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.

The framework will support unified programming models via integrated query capabilities in C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework and an API for manipulating and querying XML.

Application Framework: The Visual Basic Application Framework provides event-based startup, meaning you don't need a Sub Main for WinForms applications. A new version of the Application Framework is ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

Mobilize.Net, an 'automated modernization' specialist headed by a former Microsoft corporate VP, has upgraded its Visual Basic upgrade tool to target .NET Core, the open source, cross-platform ...

The System.IO namespace in the .NET framework provides several classes for working with text files, binary files, directories, and byte streams.

Visual Studio.Net comprises Microsoft .Net versions of a number of Microsoft programming languages, including Visual Basic, Visual C++ and the new C# (pronounced "C-sharp").