Course Overview

What this VB.NET Programming course covers, how to use it, prerequisites.

A structured, hands-on course on Visual Basic .NET and the .NET platform. It runs from language fundamentals to the CLR internals, object-oriented and functional programming, LINQ, async/parallel programming, the modern .NET hosting stack (dependency injection, configuration, logging), data access, desktop and service applications, design patterns, SOLID and clean architecture, testing, performance, security, and deployment.

Targets Visual Basic 16.9 on .NET 8 / 9 / 10 (with notes for .NET Framework 4.8). The VB language is stable: Microsoft supports it on modern .NET for WinForms, WPF, console, class libraries, worker services, and Web API, but it doesn't add major new language features.

📘 *Companion course:* the Visual Basic course on this site covers the broader VB family (VBA, VB6, the My namespace in depth). This course goes deeper into VB.NET and .NET engineering.

Course Overview

Beginners, VB6/VBA developers moving to .NET, maintainers of enterprise VB.NET systems, developers learning .NET via VB

Basic computer skills. No programming experience required for Part I.

~120–140 hours, 12–14 weeks Visual Studio 2022/2026 (Community is free) with the ".NET desktop development" workload,.NET 8+ SDK, SQL Server Express/LocalDB or SQLite, Git

Build, test, and deploy professional VB.NET desktop, service, and API applications using modern .NET practices