Windows 10: Visual Basic Studio

Papillion2017 · Jan 5, 2023

Before retirement I used to work in education and for a number of years I spent many hours Days, Years developing Visual Basic programs and compiling them into executables for student use. Then there were security issues raised and the college I worked for banned the use of .exe files on its computers. Indeed it installed software that actively deleted .exe files which were on any USB memory sticks inserted into college computers. This meant lots of programs I had created for student use could no longer be used. Is there any "safe version" of Visual Studio where I could continue to develop V

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Brink · Jan 5, 2023

Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8

Visual Basic, along with its Application Framework, is supported in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8! Visual Studio 16.8 includes the Windows Forms Designer, so Visual Basic is ready for you to migrate existing applications or create new applications.

While .NET Core has had Visual Basic since the first release, and WinForms since it was released in .NET Core 3.1, it did not include the Application Framework library and WinForms Designer support Visual Basic programmers expect. .NET 5 is the next version of .NET Core and we think .NET 5 is ready for you to migrate existing .NET Framework apps or create new WinForms applications.

We’re excited about the updates for Visual Basic in .NET 5, but first a reminder that you can base your decision to migrate to .NET 5 on whether or not you want its new features and how you need to interop with .NET 5 applications. The .NET Framework will be supported as part of Windows for a very long time. New features will not be added to .NET Framework. New features, including new WinForms features, will be added only to .NET 5 and future versions.

Visual Studio 16.8 and .NET 5 include the following updates for WinForms development in .NET 5:

Designer Event Handling support: Visual Basic events are hooked up with a Handles keyword on the code behind method. This presented significant challenges to the WinForms designer and did not work correctly in .NET Core 3.1. This has been fixed.

Application Framework: The Visual Basic Application Framework provides event-based startup, meaning you don’t need a Sub Main for WinForms applications. A new version of the Application Framework is available in .NET 5.

Single Instance applications: .NET 5 introduces Single Instance Applications to the .NET Core family. The new version also has updated logic that should work well in more scenarios.

Updates to Visual Studio dialogs: Updates have been made to a few dialogs to support Visual Basic features in the new project format. This work is ongoing.

Visual Basic WinForms template: We waited to add the template to Visual Studio until you could create WinForms applications with the Application Framework. This new template is the default in Visual Studio, and available via a switch on dotnet new in the .NET CLI.

Additional Visual Basic Runtime features: The last few versions of .NET Core have ported features of the Visual Basic Runtime. We believe this work is complete and that missing features can’t work the same way on .NET 5.

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Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotne...l-studio-16-8/

Brink · Jan 5, 2023

Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code

After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve added initial support for JUnit 5, including running, debugging test cases as well as test report. Please give us a try and let us know your feedback.

Expression Evaluation based Conditional Break Point

After introducing expression evaluation in our January release for the Java debugger extension, we are bringing the functionality to conditional break points. Now, you can set your breakpoint to break when an expression evaluates to true. We believe this could be a very useful feature when debugging your Java application using Visual Studio Code.

Other Updates

We’ve also added new features to our Java on Visual Studio Code extension lineup, including:

Java Test Runner

Trigger tests from test explorer on different levels

Add command to open log file

Add setting to specify the position of test report

Tomcat

Add several context commands in Tomcat Explorer

Add support for JVM customization and Tomcat server configuration

Add command palette entries for user input

Maven

Add support for auto-update maven project explorer when pom.xml is updated

Try it out

Please don’t hesitate to try Visual Studio Code for your Java development, and let us know your thoughts! Install the Java Extension Pack which includes Language Support for Java by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, and the Java Test Runner.

Additional resources

If you’re working on Spring Boot, there are also extensions for Spring Boot Tools and Spring Initializr we’ve developed in partnership with Pivotal.

Learn more about Java on Visual Studio Code.

Explore our step by step Java Tutorials on Visual Studio Code.

Xiaokai He,
Program Manager
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Source: Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code | The Visual Studio Blog

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