With the milestone .NET 5 and Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 releases now out, Microsoft is reminding Visual Basic coders that their favorite programming language enjoys full support and the troublesome ...

but with .NET 5 Visual Basic will support more types of applications written with Windows Forms, WPF, Worker Service, and the ASP.NET Core Web API. "We are supporting these application types to ...

Windows Forms would like you to know that the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. How exaggerated? Claims of its death go back at least to 2014, when a post started off with "Everyone knows ...

Windows Forms Support A common complaint about Visual Basic in .NET Core was that the Windows Forms designer wasn’t very good. Klaus from Microsoft explained that a major part of the reason for ...

C# is the future for .NET ... all Visual Basic code will be able to make the jump from one set of libraries to another smaller set. It’s likely that existing code will remain purely on Windows ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

There is a variety of GUI frameworks for .NET: Microsoft itself offers ... There is a powerful WYSIWYG designer for Windows Forms interfaces within the Visual Studio development environment.

particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and the ...

The final topic in our .NET 5 Breaking Changes ... console, and Windows Services.) WinForms was heavily influenced by Visual Basic, and like VB it acts as a thin wrapper around native Windows ...

The company has expressed no plans for the development of C++/CLI, its version of C++ for .NET. The change in plans for Visual Basic development makes a lot of sense, but many Windows developers ...

the .NET compilers for C# and Visual Basic (codenamed "Roslyn"), the F# compiler, Windows Forms for building desktop apps, and documentation. The msbuild repo contains the Microsoft Build Engine ...