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    Create ASP.NET Core apps with VB.NET and design views and pages with VB.NET too!

    Hi all.
    Do you now that you can fully write ASP.NET Core 6 apps with VB .NET in VS2019 and VS2022?
    All you need to do is downloading this VS Extension (or use the VS.NET Extension Manager to install it directly):
    https://marketplace.visualstudio.com...ernVBNET.Vazor
    and double-click VazorEx.vsix to setup these Vazor templates:
    1. A Vazor project template for ASP.NET MVC Core 6.0 .
    2. A Vazor project template for ASP.NET Web Pages Core 6.0 .
    3. A VazorView item template to add a new vazor view (.vazor and .vbxml.vb files) to the MVC project.
    4. A VazorPage item template to add a new vazor page (.cshtml, .cshtml.vb, and .vbxml.vb files) to the Razor Pages project.
    After installation:
    open VS.Net and create a new project. In the search box, write Vazor, and choose one of the 2 vazor project templates.
    In the project created, right-click a folder in solution explorer and select Add/New Item.
    From the dialogue box select VazorView (if this is an MVC project) or VazorPage (if this is a Razor Pages project).
    You can easily understand the structure of the Vazor view/page, as it uses VB.NET XML literals to compose the vbHtml code, such as:
    Code:
    Partial Public Class IndexView
        Public overrides Function GetVbXml(view As IndexView) As XElement
            Return _
     _
            <vbxml>
                <h3> Browse Students</h3>
                <p>Select from <%= view.Students.Count() %> students:</p>
                <ul>
                    <%= (Iterator Function()
                             For Each std In view.Students
                                 Yield <li><%= std.Name %></li>
                             Next
                         End Function)() %>
                </ul>
                <p>Students details:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li ForEach="m">
                    Id: <m.Id/><br/>
                    Name: <m.Name/><br/>
                        <p>Grade: <m.Grade/></p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <script>
                     var x = 5;
                     document.writeln("students count = <%= view.Students.Count() %>");
            </script>
            </vbxml>
    
        End Function
    
    End Class
    VazorEx also installs an Html5 CompletionProvider. It provides Html5 auto completion in VB XML literals: untitled1 The auto completion is enabled only when XML root is <vbxml> or <zml>:
    Code:
    Dim x = <vbxml>
            <!—auto completion for HTML 5 is available here -->
       </vbxml>
    You can write <% and press Ctrl+space to get this block written for you:
    Code:
        <%= (Function()
                  Return < />
               End Function)( )%>
    where you can use conditions or any other vb code to return an html node. And you can write <( and press Ctrl+space to get this block written for you:
    Code:
         <%= (Iterator Function()
                  For Each item In Collection
                       Yield <p><%= item %></p>
                  Next
               End Function)( ) %>
    where you can modify it to iterate through your collection and yield an html node based on each item in the collection, like filling a list with elements.

    For more details, see the readme:
    https://github.com/VBAndCs/Vazor/blob/master/README.md

    And here is also the source code of ShopOnWeb_VB.NET app:
    https://github.com/VBAndCs/eShopOnWeb_VB.NET
    which is the VB.NET version of the Microsoft full web sample eShopOnWeb
    but it is still uses ASP.NET Core 3.1. I will update it to ASP.NET Core 7 directly when it is released.
    I hope you find this info helpful, and start creating your web applications targeting ASP.NET Core using VB.NET and Vazor.
    Have fun
    Last edited by M.Hamdy; Sep 19th, 2022 at 04:54 AM.

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