Conclusions
Moving Visual Basic from COM to .NET was a demanding, yet rewarding experience. There is no question that the move entailed a great number of changes in the language—changes that will take time to fully assimilate in the Visual Basic programming community. It also entailed a great deal of change in the structure of the compiler itself and in ways to think about compiling the language. By adding features such as inheritance and overloading to the language, however, Visual Basic has become a much more powerful language than it has been in the past.
By far, the greatest benefit in moving to .NET is the .NET platform itself. With the .NET runtime environment, Visual Basic for the first time has easy access to a huge realm of functionality ...
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