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The sixth edition of the C# language specification allows for more openness and community participation in changes to the language, Microsoft said. Ecma International has approved the sixth edition of ...

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The Microsoft-backed .NET Foundation has conducted its first web application developer survey and says the results suggest its Blazor framework for building mobile apps in C# and .NET is "taking off".

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems ...

Dynamic programming languages have been around for decades. With LISP (LISt Processing) and Smalltalk as progenitors, today’s popular examples include Perl, Python, and Ruby. Often labeled “open ...

Readers respond to the May cover story (".NET at the Crossroads") on the direction of C# and Visual Basic: In my opinion, the claim that C# is for more mathematical and scientific purposes is ...

COMMENTARY--Even as the battle between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems for developer mindshare goes into full swing, the line between competing development platforms is already starting to blur. That's ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...