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title: Visual Basic documentation # < 60 chars

summary: Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps. # < 160 chars

metadata:

title: "Visual Basic docs - get started, tutorials, reference."

description: "Learn Visual Basic programming in .NET - for beginning developers, developers new to Visual Basic, and experienced Visual Basic developers"

ms.topic: landing-page # Required

ms.date: 08/13/2020

# linkListType: architecture | concept | deploy | download | get-started | how-to-guide | learn | overview | quickstart | reference | tutorial | video | whats-new

landingContent:

# Cards and links should be based on top customer tasks or top subjects

# Start card title with a verb

# Card (optional)

- title: Get started

linkLists:

- linkListType: download

links:

- text: Download the .NET SDK

url: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

- linkListType: get-started

links:

- text: Create a .NET Core console application using Visual Studio

url: ../core/tutorials/with-visual-studio.md

- text: Create a .NET Standard library using Visual Studio

url: ../core/tutorials/library-with-visual-studio.md

- text: Walkthroughs

url: walkthroughs.md

- text: Additional resources

url: getting-started/additional-resources.md

- title: Fundamentals

linkLists:

- linkListType: overview

links:

- text: Language strategy

url: getting-started/strategy.md

- text: Programming concepts

url: programming-guide/concepts/index.md

- linkListType: whats-new

links:

- text: What's new in Visual Basic

url: ./whats-new/index.md

- linkListType: concept

links:

- text: Structure of a Visual Basic app

url: programming-guide/program-structure/structure-of-a-visual-basic-program.md

- text: Language features

url: programming-guide/language-features/index.md

- text: Develop apps with Visual Basic

url: developing-apps/index.md

- text: Windows Forms apps

url: developing-apps/windows-forms/index.md

- linkListType: get-started

links:

- text: Visual Basic on Q&A

url: /answers/topics/dotnet-visual-basic.html

- title: Language reference

linkLists:

- linkListType: reference

links:

- text: Index

url: language-reference/index.md

- text: Keywords

url: language-reference/keywords/index.md

- text: Operators

url: language-reference/operators/index.md

- text: Data types

url: language-reference/keywords/data-types-summary.md

- text: String functions

url: language-reference/functions/string-functions.md

- text: Language specification

url: reference/language-specification/index.md