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Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0
Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0
Avatar November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18
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
Combining Angular, Visual Basic and .NET Core for developing modern web apps
Avatar June 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 06/5/18
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
Roslyn Primer – Part I: Anatomy of a Compiler
Avatar October 2, 2017 Oct 2, 2017 10/2/17
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 ...
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 2 – IoC Containers
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 2 – IoC Containers
Avatar September 7, 2017 Sep 7, 2017 09/7/17
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 ...
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 1
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 1
Avatar August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17
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!
New for Visual Basic: .NET Standard Class Libraries and the dotnet CLI!
Avatar August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17
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 ...
Visual Basic and Cross-Platform: Mobile Apps with VB, Xamarin, and .NET Standard!
Visual Basic and Cross-Platform: Mobile Apps with VB, Xamarin, and .NET Standard!
Avatar June 13, 2017 Jun 13, 2017 06/13/17
How would you like it if you could create a Console App in Visual Basic and run it on Linux? Or running the same Xamarin.Forms-App written in Visual Basic on an iPhone, and Android and a Windows Tablet? Welcome to the world of cross-platform development, which from Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 on – thanks to .NET Standard and .NET Core – is...
Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…
Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…
Avatar April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
...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...