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Visual Basic: Versions and Tags

This article shows versions of Microsoft Visual Basic programming language.  And also shows tags for Visual Basic articles in TechNet Wiki:

Versions

Product Name Version Lifecycle Start Date Mainstream Support End Date Extended support End Date Service Pack Support End Date
Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 1.0 1991-05      
Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0 2.0 1992-11      
Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 3.0 1993-      
Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 4.0 1995-08      
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 5.0 1997-02      
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Standard Edition 6.0 1999-01-27  2005-03-31 2008-04-08  
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2002 Standard Edition 7.0 2002-04-15  2007-07-10 2009-07-14  
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition 7.1 2003-07-10 2008-10-14 2013-10-08  
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition 8.0 2006-01-14 2011-04-12 2016-04-12  
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition  9.0 2008-02-19 2013-04-09 2018-04-10  
Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition  10.0 2010-06-29 2014-07-14 2020-09-08  
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8  11.0 2012-10-13 2018-01-19 2023-01-10 2015-01-13
Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop 12.0 2014-01-15 Not Applicable Not Applicable 2016-10-11
Visual Studio Community 2015 13.0 2015-07-20 Not Applicable Not Applicable 2017-10-10
Visual Studio 2017 14.0 2017-03-07 2020-04-12 2027-04-13  

Tags

Following tags are used for TechNet Wiki articles written about Visual Basic:

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