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.NET^[1]
• IronRuby — implementation of Ruby for the .NET Framework, interoperable with VB.NET^[2]
• 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-platform^[3]
• MonoGame — game development
• Json.NET — popular library for working with JSON data^[4]
• .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) — building apps that run cross platform from one codebase^[5]
• NHibernate — Hibernate object–relational mapping framework for the Microsoft .NET platform
• NuGet — package manager
• 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 communication^[6]
• Windows Forms — GUI class library for Windows-based desktop applications
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) — graphical subsystem for building desktop apps^[7]
• Windows Workflow Foundation — framework for building workflow-based applications in VB.NET and other .NET languages^[8]

• Microsoft Visual Studio^[9]
• JetBrains Rider
• SharpDevelop – discontinued free and open source IDE^[10]

• Roslyn — open-source compiler platform for C# and Visual Basic^[11]
• 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 learning^[13]
• AForge.NET — computer vision and artificial intelligence library^[14]
• CNTK (Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit) — deep learning framework developed by Microsoft, with .NET bindings.^[15]
• ML.NET — open-source and cross-platform machine learning framework^[16]
• ONNX Runtime — high-performance scoring engine for machine learning models with .NET API support^[17]

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

• MSBuild^[18]
• NAnt^[19]

• Visual Studio Debugger — debugger included in Visual Studio
• WinDbg — Microsoft debugger for Windows applications^[20]
• dotTrace — JetBrains performance and memory profiler
• dotMemory — JetBrains memory profiler
• NProfiler — performance profiler for Visual Basic .NET

• NUnit^[21]
• Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework (MSTest)^[22]
• xUnit.net^[23]

• List of .NET libraries and frameworks
• List of C# software
• List of C++ software and tools
• List of C software and tools
• List of Java frameworks
• List of JavaScript libraries and List of JavaScript-based web frameworks
• List of Python software
• List of Ruby software and tools
• List of computer books and List of software programming journals

• Official Microsoft .NET documentation
• .NET Foundation projects