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Since then we\u2019ve released Xamarin.Forms, which makes it possible for an entire app—from business logic to user interface—to be written in a PCL and shared across platforms. This means that it\u2019s become possible to write entire mobile applications in Visual Basic in Visual Studio using Xamarin.Forms. The Xamarin developer portal has instructions on creating a Visual Basic project<\/a> from the Xamarin.Forms new project template. A \u201cBasic\u201d Once you\u2019ve created a new project and converted it to Visual Basic (or just started with the sample<\/a>) your entire application can be written in Visual Basic. The code below represents a simple Xamarin doesn’t implement support for the Visual Basic language directly, so you can\u2019t use Xamarin Studio for these projects; however, if you’re a Visual Basic programmer, or have existing Visual Basic code you\u2019d like to mobilize, there’s never been a better time to get started with mobile development with Xamarin.Forms!<\/a> And, of course, if you have<\/strong> published a Windows Phone application written in Visual Basic, there’s still time to take advantage of our free subscriptions for Windows Phone Developers<\/a> promotion before August 31, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are a Visual Basic developer, your options for becoming a mobile developer have historically been limited to targeting Windows Phone; however, with Xamarin.Forms, Portable Class Libraries, and Visual Studio, developing iOS and Android apps entirely in Visual Basic has become a real possibility. Last year I wrote about how Visual Basic Portable Class […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":570,"featured_media":20397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,16],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-xamarin-platform","tag-xamarin-forms"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" If you are a Visual Basic developer, your options for becoming a mobile developer have historically been limited to targeting Windows Phone; however, with Xamarin.Forms, Portable Class Libraries, and Visual Studio, developing iOS and Android apps entirely in Visual Basic has become a real possibility. Last year I wrote about how Visual Basic Portable Class […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}App<\/code> class is shown here:<\/p>\n\nPublic Class App\n Inherits Application\n\n Public Sub New()\n Dim label = New Label With {.XAlign = TextAlignment.Center,\n .FontSize = Device.GetNamedSize(NamedSize.Medium, GetType(Label)),\n .Text = "Welcome to Xamarin.Forms with Visual Basic.NET"}\n\n Dim stack = New StackLayout With {\n .VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.Center\n }\n stack.Children.Add(label)\n\n Dim page = New ContentPage\n page.Content = stack\n MainPage = page\n\n End Sub\n<\/pre>\nContentPage<\/code> written in Visual Basic. You can use this as a basis for new pages in your apps:<\/p>\n\nPublic Class Page2\n Inherits ContentPage\n\n Public Sub New()\n Dim label = New Label With {.XAlign = TextAlignment.Center,\n .FontSize = Device.GetNamedSize(NamedSize.Medium, GetType(Label)),\n .Text = "Visual Basic ContentPage"}\n\n Dim button = New Button With {.Text = "Click me"}\n AddHandler button.Clicked, Async Sub(sender, e)\n Await DisplayAlert("Hello from VB", "Visual Basic.NET is back!", "Thanks")\n End Sub\n\n Dim stack = New StackLayout With {\n .VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.Center\n }\n stack.Children.Add(label)\n stack.Children.Add(button)\n\n Content = stack\n End Sub\n\nEnd Class \n<\/pre>\n