As of April 1, Microsoft ended free professional telephone and online incident support and free critical updates, according to a posting on the company's MSDN site for developers. Both services, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — ArtinSoft this week is launching three consulting programs designed to assist developers with migrating applications to Visual Basic .Net, the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual ...

Microsoft claimed it will double its developer audience for Windows Phone 7 by launching tools to allow Visual Basic specialists to create apps for the new mobile OS. The announcement will enable ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Microsoft on Monday released Visual Basic for Windows Phone ...

In addition, Microsoft will stop issuing service packs for VB6, which comprise the latest collection of product fixes, by the end of the month. Consultants and independent software vendors who signed ...

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform. The upcoming Visual Studio 2010 release boosts ...

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 ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Software giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Basic on Windows Phone 7. The announcement comes after the company went final with the Windows phone developer tools.

The problems facing Visual Basic users come at a time when use of the code is already in decline, says Jay Dixit, an analyst at Evans Data Corp. in Santa Cruz, Calif. Evans’ semiannual North American ...