Visual Studio 2026 brings AI into your IDE for $50

TL;DR: MS Visual Studio Professional 2026 delivers faster coding, smarter AI assistance, and better collaboration — for $49.99 instead of $499.99. At some point, every developer hits the same moment: ...
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Microsoft: We won't evolve Visual Basic programming language but we'll open it to .NET 5

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 ...
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Microsoft Doesn't Budge on 'Classic' Visual Basic

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...
Ars Technica

The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...