Chapter 2. Your First VB .NET Application

IN THIS CHAPTER

It's time to jump in and start working with VB .NET. First, you need to learn a little bit about the new IDE. The new VB .NET IDE might look somewhat familiar to you, but there are some significant changes that make it a more useful environment. However, these changes can be frustrating to experienced VB developers because many of the keystrokes have changed, windows have different names, and the debugging tools work differently. VB .NET is part of Visual Studio .NET (or VS .NET), which finally consolidates all the development languages into one place: VB .NET, C++.NET, and C#. You ...

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