Should You Use Existing Visual Basic Syntax or the New .NET Equivalents?
Visual Basic .NET includes many language features of earlier versions for which corresponding functionality exists in the .NET Framework. This includes major areas such as file IO, for which there is a completely new model available in the Framework, and minor items such as the MsgBox statement, which has an almost exact counterpart in the Framework method MessageBox.Show(). For each of these cases, where the same functionality exists in both the “native” Visual Basic commands and in the Framework, you have to decide which one you are going to use.
As you read this book, we will attempt to guide your decision by showing you which of the options we use in each code sample. ...
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