Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

.NET 2015: A New Vision for Development

Generally speaking, applications you develop need an execution environment that offers services, tools, and libraries. For many years, for applications built with Microsoft Visual Basic, the execution environment has been the Microsoft .NET Framework. In previous releases, the .NET Framework was a unique environment for building a variety of applications, including desktop applications, web applications, and apps for mobile devices. With the new release, Microsoft has taken some steps forward: It has kept the full .NET Framework, now in version 4.6, for desktop applications, and it has created .NET Core 5, a new open source, modular framework for creating cross-platform applications and Windows 10 applications. ...