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Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0

November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18
Kathleen Dollard
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 ...

Roslyn Primer – Part I: Anatomy of a Compiler

October 2, 2017 Oct 2, 2017 10/2/17
Anthony D. Green [MSFT]
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 ...

Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 2 – IoC Containers

September 7, 2017 Sep 7, 2017 09/7/17
VBTeam
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 ...

Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 1

August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17
VBTeam
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 ...

Introduction to (Live) Unit Testing in Visual Basic… [updated for VS 2017 Update 3 Preview 3]

May 21, 2017 May 21, 2017 05/21/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
...and Why My Grandma Invented the Concept! Meet late Grandma Grete Schindler. I'd like to introduce you to my grandma, because this post will be about the essence and purpose of unit testing in Visual Basic, and Granny Grete basically invented the concept of unit testing. Yes, she really did, I kid you not – she was a very wise woman...

Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
Klaus Loeffelmann
...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...