Why the Visual Basic Language Has Changed
Before Visual Basic .NET appeared, earlier versions of Visual Basic created applications and components targeted for Windows client applications. Of course, Visual Basic .NET is designed to create applications and components for the Windows platform as well. However, Visual Basic .NET now includes a framework for creating Web services and Web applications, greatly increasing the target platforms that you can work with. Because of this new increase in target platforms for which applications and services can be created, Visual Basic .NET supports the new Common Language Specification (CLS). The CLS identifies a set of features of a programming language that is supported by a wide array of development tools. ...
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