Visual Basic (.NET)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the modern programming language for .NET. For the original Visual Basic, the last version of which was Visual Basic 6.0, see Visual Basic (classic) . Visual Basic Paradigm Multi-paradigm : structured , imperative , object-oriented , declarative , generic , reflective and event-driven Designed by Microsoft Developer Microsoft First appeared 2001 ; 22 years ago Stable release 17.6.4 [1] / 20 June 2023 ; 2 months ago Typing discipline Static , both strong and weak , [2] both safe and unsafe , [2] nominative Platform .NET Framework , Mono , .NET [3] [4] OS Chiefly Windows Also on Android , BSD , iOS , Linux , macOS , Solaris , and Unix License Roslyn compiler: Apache License 2.0 [5] Filename extensions .vb Website docs .microsoft .com /dotnet /visual-bas...