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.NET Core 2.0 and VB - Is it available on the Mac OS ecosystem?

I've been searching around and it seems like I can develop in C# on .NET Core 2 freely using Visual Studio Code. It looks like VB only comes with Microsoft's paid edition of Visual Studio (and I don't even know if VB is supported on MacOS). Is there a feasible way for me to develop a VB.NET app on MacOS using open source tools?

Thanks!

Solution

  • The .NET Core stack itself is completely cross platform. So you can certainly write Visual Basic (.NET) code and build it using dotnet on Linux, macOS or Windows.

    For example, on my Linux box, I can do:

    dotnet new console --language vb
dotnet run

    To see a working "Hello World!" application in Visual Basic.

    But for a nicer editing experience (with IntelliSense and so on) the open source tool would be VSCode. Unfortunately, it looks like VB Support is still not implemented in VSCode.