The State of VB.NET with Kathleen Dollard
Is VB.NET dead? Kathleen Dollard says No! Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen about a recent blog post from Microsoft about VB.NET not coming to .NET 5. Kathleen talks through the decision-making process that led to the blog post - not the death of VB.NET, but keeping VB.NET stable while C# is going through such significant changes. No, VB.NET is not going into maintenance, the same team is continuing to work on it - it's just going in a different direction from C#!
Guests:
Kathleen Dollard
Kathleen Dollard loves to code and loves to teach and talk about code. She’s written tons of articles, a book, and spoken around the world. She’s on the .NET Team at Microsoft where she works on the .NET managed languages (C#, F#, and Visual Basic.NET). She’s always ready to help developers take the next step in exploring the wonderful world we call code.
Links:
- Zacue Teleprompter http://zacue.com
- Blog Post about Visual Basic in .NET 5 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vbteam/visual-basic-support-planned-for-net-5-0/
- Blog Post on C# 9 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/welcome-to-c-9-0/
- System.CommandLine https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api
- global.json https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-json?tabs=netcore3x