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Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0

.NET TeamMarch 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20

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

Edit & Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6

VBTeamFebruary 23, 2015Feb 23, 201502/23/15

It's the beginning of a new year! According to Back to the Future Part II, everyone will be riding hoverboards in a couple months (and, let's be honest, Doc would love the HoloLens). In the meantime, let's explore the enhancements we've made to the Visual Studio debugging experience. In CTP 6, we improved the edits supported by Edit & ...

Post-Release Goodies

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]November 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14

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 ...

Short Videos Demonstrating What’s New in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C#, VB, and F#

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14

Our 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, and how to improve your code quality with “analyzers”. To learn more about our team’s work in Visual Studio 2015 ...

Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for VB and C#

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]November 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14

Download Visual Studio 2015 Preview and review the release notes. Over the past several years, our team has been hard at work re-implementing the full language stacks for Visual Basic and C#. While this was a long investment, we knew that an improved stack with a cleaner architecture would allow our team to work faster, empower others to build...

Kinect SDK v1.5 – Now with VB Samples !!!

VBTeamMay 25, 2012May 25, 201205/25/12

As developers start to realize the full potential of Microsoft Kinect and new hardware is made available for the PC it’s really great to see the Kinect team provide some sample support for VB developers. For a while the Compilers team (who handle both VB and C# compilers) have been hearing VB developers asking ...

Visual Basic 11 Beta Available for Download!

VBTeamFebruary 28, 2012Feb 28, 201202/28/12

As you may have read in Jason’s announcement, today we announced that Visual Studio 11 Beta is now available for download. This is a huge release for Visual Basic as it provides full platform support for building Windows 8 Metro style apps, a first-class asynchronous programming experience, and also the long-awaited Iterators ...

New VB XNA Sample – showing Xbox, Windows and Phone targetting

Anthony D. Green [MSFT]December 12, 2011Dec 12, 201112/12/11

For all those who have started venturing into developing windows phone applications, there are quite a few samples utilizing Silverlight, but the XNA content has been a little bit light. (We are working on getting some more XNA VB samples online). But for those wanting to see a nice VB example of XNA development,&...

Simultaneous Async Tasks (Alan Berman)

VBTeamMay 10, 2011May 10, 201105/10/11

The new Async feature in the Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) provides an elegantly simple technique to make code asynchronous.Our writing team uses an internal app that would benefit from asynchronous calls. For each URL contained in the MSDN documentation that we publish, the app lists the title from the link, and the title parsed...

Async Feature Control Flow (Alan Berman)

VBTeamApril 13, 2011Apr 13, 201104/13/11

What is asynchronous programming? Let's say you send out an email, then wait and do nothing for the two minutes it takes to get a response back. You do nothing while you're waiting. It's worth waiting because it'll be back fast. When that happens, sending the email and getting a response is synchronous. But another time you send an email and ...

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