Introduction
I started working on my first .NET book project in 1998 or 1999. Of course I thought Visual Studio 6 would simply become version 7 and that VB6 would become VB7; I hadn't heard of C# at that point, and I hadn't heard the term .NET in the late 1990s. I have been using and exploring the .NET Framework and Visual Basic .NET for some time now—a couple of years at least—and the more I use it, the more impressed, amazed, and intrigued I become.
It doesn't take very long to get past the changes in VB .NET grammar, but the framework is like the deep blue sea. In general it will take the average VB6 programmer a few months to tackle the grammatical changes in VB .NET. The framework will take more time to master. The .NET Framework, common ...
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