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Environment Setup

This document discusses the tools available for creating VB.Net applications, including the .Net framework, integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio and Visual Basic Express, and alternative options like Mono that allow VB.Net programming on non-Windows platforms. The .Net framework includes common language runtime, libraries, and supports languages like C#, VB.Net and web development. Visual Studio and Visual Basic Express are the main IDEs for Windows, while Mono provides cross-platform .Net support.

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Environment Setup

This document discusses the tools available for creating VB.Net applications, including the .Net framework, integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio and Visual Basic Express, and alternative options like Mono that allow VB.Net programming on non-Windows platforms. The .Net framework includes common language runtime, libraries, and supports languages like C#, VB.Net and web development. Visual Studio and Visual Basic Express are the main IDEs for Windows, while Mono provides cross-platform .Net support.

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In this chapter, we will discuss the tools available for creating VB.Net applications.

We have already mentioned that VB.Net is part of .Net framework and used for writing .Net
applications. Therefore before discussing the available tools for running a VB.Net program, let us
understand how VB.Net relates to the .Net framework.

The .Net Framework


The .Net framework is a revolutionary platform that helps you to write the following types of
applications −

Windows applications

Web applications
Web services

The .Net framework applications are multi-platform applications. The framework has been designed
in such a way that it can be used from any of the following languages: Visual Basic, C#, C++,
Jscript, and COBOL, etc.

All these languages can access the framework as well as communicate with each other.

The .Net framework consists of an enormous library of codes used by the client languages like
VB.Net. These languages use object-oriented methodology.

Following are some of the components of the .Net framework −

Common Language Runtime (CLR)

The .Net Framework Class Library

Common Language Specification

Common Type System

Metadata and Assemblies

Windows Forms

ASP.Net and ASP.Net AJAX

ADO.Net
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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

Windows Presentation Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

LINQ

For the jobs each of these components perform, please see ASP.Net - Introduction , and for
details of each component, please consult Microsoft's documentation.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) For VB.Net


Microsoft provides the following development tools for VB.Net programming −

Visual Studio 2010 (VS)

Visual Basic 2010 Express (VBE)

Visual Web Developer

The last two are free. Using these tools, you can write all kinds of VB.Net programs from simple
command-line applications to more complex applications. Visual Basic Express and Visual Web
Developer Express edition are trimmed down versions of Visual Studio and has the same look and
feel. They retain most features of Visual Studio. In this tutorial, we have used Visual Basic 2010
Express and Visual Web Developer (for the web programming chapter).

You can download it from here . It gets automatically installed in your machine. Please note that
you need an active internet connection for installing the express edition.

Writing VB.Net Programs on Linux or Mac OS


Although the.NET Framework runs on the Windows operating system, there are some alternative
versions that work on other operating systems. Mono is an open-source version of the .NET
Framework which includes a Visual Basic compiler and runs on several operating systems, including
various flavors of Linux and Mac OS. The most recent version is VB 2012.

The stated purpose of Mono is not only to be able to run Microsoft .NET applications cross-platform,
but also to bring better development tools to Linux developers. Mono can be run on many operating
systems including Android, BSD, iOS, Linux, OS X, Windows, Solaris and UNIX.

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