Introduction

Visual Basic 6 users will see that Visual Basic .NET is not just an upgrade from Visual Basic 6. Instead, it catapults the Visual Basic language into a much broader arena that allows you to create many types of applications previously too difficult (if at all possible) to implement using previous versions of Visual Basic. If this is your first introduction to Visual Basic, welcome aboard and enjoy the ride. Hopefully you will find Visual Basic .NET to be a powerful language that will empower you to build world class applications.

Visual Basic has come a long way since its infancy. Visual Basic (or VB for short) has traditionally been a language that simplifies the development of software applications that run on Microsoft Windows. ...

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