Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

1.10. Wrap-Up

This chapter introduced basic object technology concepts, including classes, objects, attributes and behaviors. We presented a brief history of Microsoft’s Windows. We discussed the history of the Internet and the Web. We presented the history of Visual Basic programming and Microsoft’s .NET initiative, which allows you to program Internet and Web-based applications using Visual Basic (and other languages). You learned the steps for executing a Visual Basic application. You test-drove a sample Visual Basic application similar to the types of applications you will learn to program in this book. You learned about the history and purpose of the UML—the industry-standard graphical language for modeling software systems. We launched ...