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Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0
AvatarNovember 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18
Visual Basic in .NET Core 3   Update: March 12, 2020 This strategy described in this 2018 post has been replaced with the one in this post. Update: Oct 8, 2019 .NET Core 3.0 contains portions of the Visual Basic.NET Runtime (microsoft.visualbasic.dll) that do not depend on WinForms. Visual Basic.NET support for WinForms, WPF, and
Combining Angular, Visual Basic and .NET Core for developing modern web apps
AvatarJune 5, 2018Jun 5, 201806/5/18
Visual Basic supports .NET Core starting in Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 (15.3). This opens new possibilities for new applications and modernizing existing applications. Preserving domain-specific code when modernizing applications allows step-wise conversions, decreases cost, and avoids disruptions. This post covers using Visual Basic ASP.NET
Roslyn Primer – Part I: Anatomy of a Compiler
AvatarOctober 2, 2017Oct 2, 201710/2/17
So, you’ve heard that VB (and C#) are open source now and you want to dive in and contribute. If you haven’t spent your life building compilers, you probably don’t know where to start. No worries, I’ll walk you through it. This post is the first of a series of blog posts focused on the Roslyn codebase. They’re intended as a primer fo
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 2 – IoC Containers
AvatarSeptember 7, 2017Sep 7, 201709/7/17
This post was authored by guest blogger André Obelink, a Visual Basic MVP, and published by the VBTeam on his behalf. In my previous post, I wrote about the basics of dependency injection. I explained the technique to define an interface and injecting the dependencies to a client object. These dependencies contain the real implementation of t
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 1
AvatarAugust 28, 2017Aug 28, 201708/28/17
This post was authored by guest blogger André Obelink, a Visual Basic MVP, and published by the VBTeam on his behalf. In this first blog post of a series of two, I explain what dependency injection (DI) is and why you might want to use this design principle in your software. The target audience of this post is the junior / medium experienced
New for Visual Basic: .NET Standard Class Libraries and the dotnet CLI!
AvatarAugust 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17
Visual Studio 2017 15.3 Preview 1 included templates for VB class libraries targeting .NET Standard class libraries and for .NET Core console apps. With the release of .NET Core 2.0 today those templates go-live. The .NET Standard You can use the built-in templates to create cross-platform command-line apps, as well as creating and testing c
Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…
AvatarApril 10, 2017Apr 10, 201704/10/17
...letting your code do absolutely nothing! We’ve all been there, one way or the other. Either as users of an app or as the developer to whom users complained to: When a typical Win32 app is waiting for an operation to complete, we often get to see something like this: In discussions about how to get a handle on such scenarios there are all