The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

VB.NET and C# are so similar in expressive power and features that conversion between the two at first glance appears to be little more than adding or removing semicolons and curly braces. In fact, ...

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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 ...