While Visual Basic is a bit more forgiving with data conversions, you'll need to jump through some hoops to do similar conversions in C#. Although my programing career began in the rough and tumble of ...

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 ...

Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the ...

Microsoft, which has been pursuing concurrent improvements for its Visual Basic and C# programming languages, plans to open up compilers for the languages and add capabilities for asynchronous ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Visual Studio Async aims to make asynchronous programming more approachable so code is as easy to write and maintain as with synchronous code Microsoft is fitting its Visual Basic and C# languages ...