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Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0

.NET Team March 11, 2020 Mar 11, 2020 03/11/20

We’ve heard your feedback that you want Visual Basic on .NET Core. Visual Basic in .NET 5 will support additional application types.

Visual Basic in .NET Core 3.0

Kathleen Dollard 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 ...

New for Visual Basic: .NET Standard Class Libraries and the dotnet CLI!

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] 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 ...

Digging Deeper into the Visual Basic Language Strategy

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] February 1, 2017 Feb 1, 2017 02/1/17

Today Mads made an excellent post about our overall .NET Language Strategy. As I know this will raise a lot of questions in the VB community I wanted to take an entire post on the VB team blog to dive deeper into how VB fits into that strategy and why and what that means in practical terms for us as a community. Looking Back Six and half years...

Relaunching the Visual Basic Team Blog

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] January 31, 2017 Jan 31, 2017 01/31/17

Last year we decided to retire this blog and consolidate content on the .NET team blog instead. The thinking at the time was that we weren’t really posting a lot of content to it and that there was so much overlap in content between the VB team blog and the C# FAQ that it would be simpler to just focus on the .NET blog. Since then my ...

Roslyn ships v1.0-rc2 with "Go-Live" license

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] May 1, 2015 May 1, 2015 05/1/15

For the last six years you've heard us go on and on about this Roslyn thing and how it's the platform for the future and would change everything and that we were all-in on it and "it's going to be great just wait and see". Well, the wait is over. This morning, at BUILD, Principal Program Managers of the Managed Languages Team Mads Torgersen ...

A Journey Through Open Source: The Trials & Triumphs in Roslyn's First Year of Open Source

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] April 6, 2015 Apr 6, 2015 04/6/15

"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure." — Gandalf, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien On April 3, 2014, Anders Hejlsberg set us on our open source journey when he made the .NET Compiler Platform (aka “Roslyn”) source code public live on stage in San Francisco. Without much open source experience to guide us (or ...

Lowercase Keywords Revisited (not an April Fools' Day joke this time, I promise)

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] April 2, 2015 Apr 2, 2015 04/2/15

Hey all, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's April Fools' Day post. I thought it was a fun way to kick off an experiment I'd like to conduct and in this post I'll tell you how you can actually try out lowercase keywords for VB on your machine right now no matter what version of VS you're using (no joke). You see, a few years back Architect-emeritus...

We're moving to GitHub!

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] January 10, 2015 Jan 10, 2015 01/10/15

It’s official. We’re moving to GitHub! We are moving the Roslyn OSS code from CodePlex to GitHub. GitHub has a vibrant open source community that we want to actively be a part of and contribute to. We are also going to take this time to modify our pull request process. Please see below for more details: WHEN: This upcoming ...

Post-Release Goodies

Anthony D. Green [MSFT] November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14

The Rosetta lander Philae wasn't the only thing in space last week. Our launch of Visual Studio 2015 Preview and our announcement to open source the full .NET server stack were out of this world. After all, it’s not every day that you can say your work trended higher than Kim Kardashian on Twitter. After an overwhelmingly positive ...

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