Do you use Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll for Visual Basic.NET projects?
Last updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] about 1 year ago.See history This rule has been archived
Archived Reason: Obsolete - Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll is largely deprecated in modern .NET versions (e.g., .NET 5 and later). Developers are encouraged to use standard .NET libraries for better compatibility and maintainability.
The Microsoft.VisualBasic library is provided to ease the implementation of the VB.NET language itself. For VB.NET, it provides some methods familiar to the VB developers and can be seen as a helper library. It is a core part of the .NET redistribution and maps common VB syntax to framework equivalents, without it some of the code may seem foreign to VB programmers.
| Microsoft.VisualBasic | .NET Framework |
|---|---|
| CInt, CStr | Convert.ToInt(...), ToString() |
| vbCrLf | Environment.NewLine, or "\r\n" |
| MsgBox | MessageBox.Show(...) |
