Developing Cross-Platform MAUI Applications with VB.NET

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Developing Cross-Platform MAUI Applications with VB.NET

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Is it possible to develop cross-platform MAUI applications using VB.NET? Guidance and resources on this topic have been difficult to find.

Yonglun Liu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 50,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-01-21T02:13:09.66+00:00

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2025-01-28T12:18:16.6733333+00:00

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Bruce (SqlWork.com) 77,686 Volunteer Moderator

there are no templates to support vb.net, and it may be missing required compiler features (vb.net has not committed to supporting all .net runtime features and is currently missing some). also all the maui code generators all generate c#, so you would need to manually convert each one vb.net.

you should be able to use vb.net based library projects in a Maui application, but all the UI code should be c#

note: this is the same story for asp.net core. at this point vb.net is a legacy product.

Albert Kallal 5,586 Reputation points

2025-01-20T03:32:08.64+00:00

Actually, for both console applications, and for winforms (windows desktop), .net core project types are fully supported for vb.net. But, for web based, no .net core projects are supported for vb.net at this point in time. And of course the cross platform MAUI? It only has C# as a option, not vb.net.

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