Microsoft recently announced that the programming language Visual Basic will no longer be developed in the future, and only stability and compatibility maintenance work will be done.
Microsoft said that starting with .NET 5, VB will support class libraries, consoles, Windows Forms, WPF, Woker Service, ASP.NET Core Web API, and facilitate the migration of existing VB programs to .NET Core.
VB 1.0 was born on May 20, 1991. It is a general-purpose object-based programming language developed by Microsoft. It is derived from Basic.
However, it added the development of a graphical user interface, and no longer needed to carry a large amount of code to describe the appearance and location of interface elements, just adding preset objects. At the time, it was the first visual programming software.
VB developed six major versions, up to VB 6.0 in 1998, and then introduced the .NET Framework to become VB .NET, but the two versions were removed from the .NET suffix and integrated into Visual Studio in 2010.
Although it has entered the .NET era, VB .NET has not gained widespread popularity, and professional developers prefer C #. Almost all examples of Microsoft's development documents today are also based on C #, and almost no source code examples for VB are seen.
In 2017, Microsoft announced the joint development strategy of C # and VB, but eventually there was no follow-up news.
