Moving from VBScript to Visual Basic

You should be aware of quite a few syntactical changes to the Visual Basic programming language before you start any project in this language. This section looks at most of the changes in Visual Basic .NET.

Set

Let’s start out with the keyword Set. In short, it is gone. The standard object instantiation in Visual Basic is shown here:

Set objMyObj = objSomeOtherObj 

In Visual Basic .NET, this code has been shortened ...

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