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, ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — AppForge Inc. (Atlanta) is now beta testing a toolkit that it claims will allow Visual Basic programmers to rapidly develop applications for handheld devices. AppForge is initially ...

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 ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

Although programming languages such as Java, Objective-C, and JavaScript garner the lion’s share of attention these days, don’t count out Microsoft’s Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net), which has been on a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

REAL Software Inc. on Wednesday announced the availability of resources to help developers conversant in Microsoft’s Visual Basic development environment to migrate their products to Mac OS and Linux ...

Microsoft on Monday released Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools, which will allow Visual Basic developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7 devices. "This release doubles the developer ...

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 ...