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VB.NET is the next generation of Visual Basic...
 | The VB.NET integrated development environment (IDE) is integrated with
the Visual Studio .NET environment (same as IDE for Visual C++). |
| VB Forms are now Windows Forms exposing more system level resources
for development and creating consistency with other environments. |
| VB.NET has a command line compiler (for GUI-less applications). |
| The language and syntax have been significantly changed...
 | New features include...
 | Try/catch error handling |
| Multithreading |
| Object-oriented inheritance |
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| Dropped...
| The variant |
| GoSub, IsNull, and IsMissing |
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| Major changes in areas such as...
| Array bounds (0 only now) |
| Parameter passing |
| Control properties and behaviors |
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.NET Framework
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The heart of VB.NET is the shared .NET
Framework...
| The use of an interpreted technology similar to Java. |
| Incorporates VB.NET, C++, C# (a Java-like version of C++) and other
languages. |
| The NET Framework is built from the ground up incorporating XML, HTTP, and
other standards. |
| There are two key parts of the .NET Framework:
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Common Language Runtime (CLR): common to all .NET programs; it is
similar to the Java Virtual Machine in that it executes/interprets
Microsoft Intermediate Language (IL) produced by the VB.NET compiler.
The CLR includes a "garbage collection" facility for handling program
memory. The VB.NET IL is called "managed code" because it runs inside
the CLR. The CLR supports any code created by any .NET compiler.
- Base Class Libraries (BCL): a common set of services (classes,
functions, libraries such as ADO.NET, etc.) that support VB.NET (and other
.NET languages).
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VB.NET Details
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