VB.NET Developer's Guide
Teaches Visual Basic programmers all about Microsoft s .NET platform, and how to develop applications using the new Visual Basic.NET.
TABLE OF CONTENTS VB.NET Developer's Guide
From the Series Editor
2001 marks the 10th anniversary of Microsoft Visual Basic (VB). In May 1991, Microsoft introduced Visual Basic 1.0. Microsoft s plan was to use VB as a strategic tool to encourage developers to write Windows applications.
With VB, Windows application development was no longer restricted to a privileged few. Anybody with moderate programming capabilities was able to develop a Windows application by dragging and dropping controls onto a form. In contrast to the more prevalent C and C++ programmers who wrote obscure code, VB programmers concentrated on writing applications that were meant to be prototypes. It is perhaps this ease of use and simplicity of language that gave VB the name of toy language. This is not the case anymore.
VB has come a long way. Since version 1.0, it has evolved from a toy language to a full-fledged Object-Oriented programming language. Today, with VB you are able to do almost everything possible with other programming languages. VB is finally a true-blue Object-Oriented language.
Visual Basic, Today and Tomorrow VB.NET
With the announcement of the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2000, Microsoft has firmly re-iterated its commitment to the Visual Basic language. With language features such as inheritance, structured exception handling, and parameterized constructors, Visual Basic programming has become more elegant, simplified, and maintainable.
With Microsoft s vision of a programmable Web and its announcement of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET, VB.NET is poised to become the most widely used language for developing Windows and Web applications.
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