"While .NET Core has had Visual Basic since the first release, and WinForms since it was released in .NET Core 3.1, it did not include the Application Framework library and WinForms Designer support ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

But in the future, there’s certainly scope for cross-platform work in Visual Basic, as it moves to supporting the .NET Standard set of base class libraries alongside the familiar .NET Framework.

Windows Forms Support A common complaint about Visual Basic in .NET Core was that the Windows ... A feature unique to VB is the Application Framework, part of the “My namespace” set of features.

Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month will discuss a variety of upcoming technologies, including Visual Basic 9.0 and the .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.

The expanded project types to foster a move to the new framework were in response to customer feedback, said Microsoft, which noted advantages of the language such as stability. "We've heard your ...

Also, LINQ makes it easier to tie C# or Visual Basic with SQL ... to build applications that target multiple versions of the .Net Framework. This means you can use VS 2008 to open, edit and ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...

While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and the broader Visual Studio .NET framework, VB6 ...

Visual Basic is a .NET framework-oriented programming language used to develop Web applications, Windows software and mobile apps. Visual Basic is part of Microsoft's development software ...

Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) next month will discuss a variety of upcoming technologies, including Visual Basic 9.0 and the .Net Language Integrated Query Framework.