How to create and run Visual Basic Code on Mac in Visual Studio

Question

I have spent countless hours trying to figure this out, but I just can't seem to. I hope you have the patience to read my problems and help me fix them.

I am taking a Visual Basic course online for my school. Since our school has no PC and just Macs, I am running into a few issues. Our teacher wants us to use Visual Studio, which I have downloaded for Mac.

We were told to create a project using Visual Basic. I followed the instructor and attempted to do what he did.

I open Visual Studio, create a new project, select the code to be VB (not C# or anything else) and prepare to start coding. I start to type and I am not able to as a pop up box says "No completions found".

All I want to do is just make my code in a .vb file (which is the format the teacher wants... will they accept a vb.NET file, idk what that is) and be able to run it in Visual Studio.

But nothing is working out for me. All the tutorials online show how to create projects in Mac and run them, but for C#. I did research and it said to download Mono, and I did, but I don't know what to do with it.

If anyone can please help, I will be fulfilled with tremendous gratitude. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can use another program called Rider from Jetbrains. You are a student so you can use Rider for free.

http://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

You can choose for Library projects and console app projects, but that is for a start more than enough.

Answer 2

VB.NET is not the first batch of languages to be supported on VS Code. You should use C# or F# instead.

These are supported programming languages for Visual Studio Code at the moment : JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Sass, Less, TypeScript, Markdown, PHP, Python, Go, Dockerfile, T-SQL, C#, C++

Thank you.