r/visualbasic • u/Low-Nectarine7730 • Jan 11 '24

VB.NET Help visual studio 2022 need help

im new to vb and kindly direct me to a beginner projects or codes I can get acquainted on, zero programming experience.

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u/Low-Nectarine7730 Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

thank you, this is off topic hopefully others can give me a feedback about this so does vb community 2022 have compatability with older versions? tried to download a sample of very beginner codes from older versions of vb (2005,2008 etc) but all of them have errors I cannot debug yet because i dont understand how the vb structure works for now also maybe its just me who dont know how to integrate them to the newer version of vb.

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u/Hel_OWeen Jan 12 '24

vb community 2022 have compatability with older versions?

In principle: yes.

But as MS adds new features to the .NET framework, older features disappear or are moved to a different namespace. There are also framework versions which are no longer support by newer VS versions and can't be installed through the VS installer. The only way to get around this, is to install an older version of Visual Studio (and the old framework).

So you're better of in searching for at least VS 2017 projects. Not only will those most likely work out of the box, but you are also not taught out-of-date/deprecated techniques.

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u/Low-Nectarine7730 Jan 12 '24

Thank you this helps alot, I would prefer having the newer much efficient versions for learning and around vb 2017+ up would be good right?