Microsoft will offer “high level” support for Visual Basic 6.0 until 2005, said Ari Bixhorn, Microsoft’s Visual Basic .Net product manager. After that, users will have to pay, and the level of support ...

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 ...

Visual Basic 6 accounted for 67.6% of those inquiries. First released in 1998 and out of extended support since 2008, VB6 appeared 12 times as often as the next single technology. Overall, 83% of ...

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#. The ...

As noted several times now, VB6 just refuses to go away, achieving cult-like status among a group of hard-core supporters. For example, though it's gone now, a UserVoice post titled "Bring back ...