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How to install Mono on Ubuntu 16.04

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Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C#and the Common Language Runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for development of cross platform applications.

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Hello World in Visual Basic .NET

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This is how you would display “Hello World” in Visual Basic.

' Allow easy reference to the System namespace classes.
Imports System

' This module houses the application's entry point.
Public Module modmain
   ' Main is the application's entry point.
   Sub Main()
     ' Write text to the console.
     Console.WriteLine ("Hello World using Visual Basic!")
   End Sub
End Module

The command line for compiling the program is the following:

vbc.exe /t:exe /debug+ /optionstrict+ /out:.\HelloVB.exe HelloWorld.vb

In the previous line, /out specifies the output file, and /t indicates the target type.