With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

“That’s really the inspiration behind the Visual Studio 2019 release,” she said, adding that Visual Studio today was suited to developing in a broad range of programming languages.

As Microsoft officials noted previously, VS 2019 now includes as an integrated part of the product Microsoft's Visual Studio Live Share, which is a collaborative programming service.

Microsoft's C# programming language has passed Visual Basic .NET on the TIOBE Index -- which measures language popularity -- and is even in the running for being named 'Programming Language of the ...

Visual Studio gives C++ developers a productivity boost, plus better debugging for Blazor WebAssembly offline apps.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.