What is New in Visual Basic 14

Visual Basic 14 was just announced as a part of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2005. Check out the new features in this video.

Mahesh Chand

Nov 13, 2014 · Updated Nov 14, 20141 min read12.7k6100Article

Lucian WischikVisual Basic 14

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Vithal Wadje12y ago
Yes mahesh sir ,thanks for clearning my doubt
Ajay Yadav12y ago
Very informative, thanks
Vithal Wadje12y ago
thanks sir for sharing ,but its really interesting to know can anyone prefer VB.NET over C# in new development,personally i don't think anyone using VB.net lots of developer are love to work with C#
- Mahesh Chand12y ago
  It's not about preference. There are companies are who VB.NET shops and both C# and VB.NET are pretty much same.
Vipin Tyagi12y ago
thank you sir..Mahesh Chand
Lakshmanan Sethu Sankaranarayan12y ago
Thank you for the coverage Mahesh Chand

VB 14 is the next version of the current Visual Basic .NET. Yesterday, Microsoft made some major announcements, including open sourcing .NET, making Visual Studio to build cross platform applications and more. The announcements of VB 14 was one of them.

Here is a list of some of the new features of VB 14 from a better coding experience to performance.

Better VB coding experience

Refactoring
Inline Rename
Faded redundant code
Organize Imports
No need to move off line
Cref intellisense
Colorized outlining improvements
Improved Edit and Continue
Improvements in Analyzers, lamdas
50% faster compiler perf

Some of the language improvements include:

Comments within LINQ
Readonly AutoProps
Multiline string literals
Structures allow Sub New()
TypeOf IsNot
Year-first date literals
#Disable Warning
#Region can now span boundaries
Partial modules
Partial interfaces
And more ..

Lucian Wischik, Senior Program Manager, Managed Languages Team talks more about VB 14 features in this video.