docs/visual-basic/index.yml

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title: Visual Basic documentation # < 60 chars
summary: Visual Basic is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. Using Visual Basic makes it fast and easy to create type-safe .NET apps. # < 160 chars

metadata:
  title: "Visual Basic docs - get started, tutorials, reference."
  description: "Learn Visual Basic programming in .NET - for beginning developers, developers new to Visual Basic, and experienced Visual Basic developers"
  ms.topic: landing-page # Required
  ms.date: 08/13/2020
# linkListType: architecture | concept | deploy | download | get-started | how-to-guide | learn | overview | quickstart | reference | tutorial | video | whats-new

landingContent:
# Cards and links should be based on top customer tasks or top subjects
# Start card title with a verb
  # Card (optional)
  - title: Get started
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: download
        links:
        - text: Download the .NET SDK
          url: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
      - linkListType: get-started
        links:
          - text: Create a .NET Core console application using Visual Studio
            url: ../core/tutorials/with-visual-studio.md
          - text: Create a .NET Standard library using Visual Studio
            url: ../core/tutorials/library-with-visual-studio.md
          - text: Walkthroughs
            url: walkthroughs.md
          - text: Additional resources
            url: getting-started/additional-resources.md

  - title: Fundamentals
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: Language strategy
            url:  getting-started/strategy.md
          - text: Programming concepts
            url: programming-guide/concepts/index.md
      - linkListType: whats-new
        links:
        - text: What's new in Visual Basic
          url: ./whats-new/index.md
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Structure of a Visual Basic app
            url: programming-guide/program-structure/structure-of-a-visual-basic-program.md
          - text: Language features
            url: programming-guide/language-features/index.md
          - text: Develop apps with Visual Basic
            url: developing-apps/index.md
          - text: Windows Forms apps
            url: developing-apps/windows-forms/index.md
      - linkListType: get-started
        links:
          - text: Visual Basic on Q&A
            url: /answers/topics/dotnet-visual-basic.html

  - title: Language reference
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: reference
        links:
          - text: Index
            url: language-reference/index.md
          - text: Keywords
            url: language-reference/keywords/index.md
          - text: Operators
            url: language-reference/operators/index.md
          - text: Data types
            url: language-reference/keywords/data-types-summary.md
          - text: String functions
            url: language-reference/functions/string-functions.md
          - text: Language specification
            url: reference/language-specification/index.md