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Jun 5, 2018
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Combining Angular, Visual Basic and .NET Core for developing modern web apps

Klaus Loeffelmann
Klaus Loeffelmann

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 Core ...

Jun 13, 2017
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Visual Basic and Cross-Platform: Mobile Apps with VB, Xamarin, and .NET Standard!

Klaus Loeffelmann
Klaus Loeffelmann

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 now also...

May 21, 2017
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Introduction to (Live) Unit Testing in Visual Basic… [updated for VS 2017 Update 3 Preview 3]

Klaus Loeffelmann
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! When ...

Apr 10, 2017
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Easy Async and Await for VBs Part 1, or…

Klaus Loeffelmann
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 kinds ...

Mar 30, 2017
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What's New in Visual Basic 2017

Klaus Loeffelmann
Klaus Loeffelmann

Visual Studio 2017 just shipped, and with it shipped a new version of Visual Basic. With the new language strategy of the .NET Languages, the focus is again on Visual Basic’s original virtue: Provide editor, debugging and refactoring tools as well as language feature to ease complex tasks and boost every VB’s developer productivity without distract...