Visual Basic documentation

Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps.

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• Download the .NET SDK

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• Create a .NET Core console application using Visual Studio
• Create a .NET Standard library using Visual Studio
• Walkthroughs
• Additional resources

Fundamentals

Overview

• Language strategy
• Programming concepts

What's new

• What's new in Visual Basic

Concept

• Structure of a Visual Basic app
• Language features
• Develop apps with Visual Basic
• Windows Forms apps

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• Visual Basic on Q&A

Language reference

Reference

• Index
• Keywords
• Operators
• Data types
• String functions
• Language specification