

Visual Studio regularly adds new features to improve the experience for developers, including those using Visual Basic and either. NET Framework because porting will require work to move to newer technologies.

NET Core, like WebForms, Workflow or WCF, you might want to stay on. If your application uses technologies that aren’t supported on. NET Core only if you want features like those listed above. Both Visual Basic and C# customers can continue to use. NET Framework, you can be confident that it will remain supported as long as Windows is supported because it is shipped with the OS. Due to differences in the platform, there will be some differences between Visual Basic on. NET Core that require language changes may not be supported in Visual Basic. This supports language stability and maintains compatibility between the. Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language. The significant number of programmers using Visual Basic demonstrates that its stability and descriptive style is valued. One of the major benefits of using Visual Basic is that the language has been stable for a very long time. This allows Visual Basic customers to take advantage of new platform features like side-by-side deployment, cross platform support, performance and new API improvements. We are supporting these application types to provide a good path forward for the existing VB customer who want to migrate their applications to.

NET Core supported Class Library and Console applications types. We’ve heard your feedback that you want Visual Basic on.
