Editing Visual Basic (.NET) (section)

== Cross-platform and open-source development ==
The official Visual Basic compiler is written in Visual Basic and is available on GitHub as a part of the [[.NET Compiler Platform]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Roslyn|date=2019-04-13|url=https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn|publisher=.NET Foundation|access-date=2019-04-14|archive-date=February 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222190922/https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn|url-status=live}}</ref> The creation of open-source tools for Visual Basic development has been slow compared to [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], although the [[Mono (software)|Mono]] development platform provides an implementation of Visual Basic-specific libraries and a Visual Basic 2005 compatible [[compiler]] written in Visual Basic,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support|title=Redirecting…|website=www.mono-project.com|access-date=June 30, 2008|archive-date=January 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130181059/https://www.mono-project.com/VisualBasic.NET_support/|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as standard framework libraries such as [[Windows Forms]] GUI library.

[[MonoDevelop]] was an [[open-source software|open-source]] alternative [[Integrated development environment|IDE]]. The [[Gambas]] environment is also similar but distinct from Visual Basic, as is the Visual FB Editor for [[FreeBasic]].