List of Visual Basic .NET software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Visual Basic .NET programming language, which includes libraries, debuggers, compilers, integrated development environments, numerical libraries, and related projects.

• .NET — cross-platform successor to .NET Framework
• .NET Framework — original Microsoft framework for building Windows applications
• ADO.NET — data access framework for relational databases
• ASP.NET — framework for building web applications and services
• Avalonia — cross-platform GUI framework
• Blazor — framework for building interactive web UIs
• Entity Framework — object–relational mapper
• IronPython — implementation of Python for the .NET Framework, interoperable with VB.NET¹
• IronRuby — implementation of Ruby for the .NET Framework, interoperable with VB.NET²
• log4net — logging library for .NET
• Measurement Studio — measurement and automation tools extension for Microsoft Visual Studio
• Mono — open-source implementation of the .NET Framework allowing .NET languages (C#, VB.NET, F#) to run cross-platform³
• MonoGame — game development
• Json.NET — popular library for working with JSON data⁴
• .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) — building apps that run cross platform from one codebase⁵
• NHibernate — Hibernate object–relational mapping framework for the Microsoft .NET platform
• NuGet — package manager
• OpenTK — graphics library usable with any language utilizing either of the .NET Framework or Mono frameworks
• SignalR — library for real-time web functionality
• Stride — open-source 2D and 3D cross-platform game engine
• Universal Windows Platform (UWP) — a Microsoft platform for building VB.NET apps
• Uno Platform — allows WinUI and XAML based code to run on iOS, macOS, Linux, Android, Windows and WebAssembly.
• Windows Communication Foundation — framework for building service-oriented applications and interprocess communication⁶
• Windows Forms — GUI class library for Windows-based desktop applications
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) — graphical subsystem for building desktop apps⁷
• Windows Workflow Foundation — framework for building workflow-based applications in VB.NET and other .NET languages⁸

• Microsoft Visual Studio⁹
• JetBrains Rider
• SharpDevelop – discontinued free and open source IDE¹⁰

• GitHub Codespaces
• JDoodle
• Replit
• dotnetfiddle.net — online compiler and IDE for C#, F#, and VB.NET
• Visual Basic (VB.NET) Online Compiler – online IDE supporting Visual Basic .NET

• Roslyn — open-source compiler platform for C# and Visual Basic¹¹
• Visual Studio compiler
• Mono VB.NET compiler — discontinued open-source Visual Basic .NET compiler ¹²

• Accord.NET — framework for scientific computing, computer vision, and machine learning¹³
• AForge.NET — computer vision and artificial intelligence library¹⁴
• CNTK (Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit) — deep learning framework developed by Microsoft, with .NET bindings.¹⁵
• ML.NET — open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework¹⁶
• ONNX Runtime — high-performance scoring engine for machine learning models with .NET API support¹⁷

• Accord.NET
• ALGLIB
• ILNumerics.Net
• IMSL Numerical Libraries
• Math.NET Numerics
• Measurement Studio
• Meta.Numerics
• NAG Numerical Library
• NMath

• MSBuild¹⁸
• NAnt¹⁹

• Visual Studio Debugger — debugger included in Visual Studio
• WinDbg — Microsoft debugger for Windows applications²⁰
• dotTrace — JetBrains performance and memory profiler
• dotMemory — JetBrains memory profiler
• NProfiler — performance profiler for Visual Basic .NET

• NUnit²¹
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework (MSTest)²²
• xUnit.net²³