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 ...

I suppose that's true, and I probably should have been more explicit. Pretty much any time we're talking about Visual Basic, and especially when we're talking about it under an article about Microsoft ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.