Summary
A variety of tools are available for building applications and components with Visual Basic .NET—most importantly, the Visual Basic .NET compiler and the Visual Studio .NET IDE. The more you learn about these two tools, the more adept you will become at writing and compiling applications and component DLLs.
It is important that you learn to distinguish between assemblies and namespaces. An assembly represents the fundamental unit of compiled, distributable code. A namespace is a user-defined scope for defining types. Namespaces are used to prevent naming conflicts across assemblies. Some aspects of dealing with assembly references and namespaces are addressed at the compiler level, whereas others are handled automatically by Visual Studio ...
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