A group blog from members of the VB team
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Basic in .NET Core 3
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 other application types in .NET Core 3.0 is similar to C#.
August 14, 2017Aug 14, 201708/14/17Visual 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,
February 1, 2017Feb 1, 201702/1/17Today 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.
January 31, 2017Jan 31, 201701/31/17Last 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.
May 1, 2015May 1, 201505/1/15For 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”.
April 6, 2015Apr 6, 201504/6/15“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.
April 2, 2015Apr 2, 201504/2/15Hey 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).
January 10, 2015Jan 10, 201501/10/15It’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.
November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14The 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.
November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14Our team has put together a set of short videos to highlight some of our work in Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Check them out to learn more about what’s new in C# and VB, how F# can be good for enterprise,
