Nice Little Things in Visual Basic .NET

[isaacschemm]

Being (loosely) based on the original Visual Basic, it's not surprising that Visual Basic .NET has features specifically targeted towards Windows Forms development. When I want to make a quick GUI app to run on my PC, I often find it easiest to build the main code in a C# or F# library, and to build a thin frontend layer in VB.NET, for two reasons: the incredibly aggressive (in a good way) auto-formatting that keeps me from being distracted by code style, and the nice set of quality-of-life helpers the language gives you for this exact use case.

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