Upgrades to Visual Basic and C# will co-evolve the platforms together and bring interoperability with dynamic languages By Paul Krill February 27, 2009 Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official said this week. Visual Basic 10 and C# 4 are both due concurrently with the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, which might ship at the end of the year. The Visual Basic and C# teams "were merged last year, and it's called the Visual Studio managed languages team," said Beth Massi, senior program manager at Microsoft, during the VSLive conference in San Francisco. Also under the team's domain are the F# language, for functional programming, and Microsoft's DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime), supporting dynamic languages on the .Net platform. [ In a related development, scripting languages are sparking a new programming era . ] Visual Basic and C# developers build the same type of applicati...