Visual Basic .Net

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) which is generally implemented on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Microsoft currently supplies Visual Basic Express Edition free of charge. he original Visual Basic .NET was released alongside Visual C# and ASP.NET in 2002. Significant changes broke backward compatibility with older versions and caused a rift within the developer community. Visual Basic .NET 2003 was released with version 1.1 of the .NET Framework. New features included support for the .NET Compact Framework and a better VB upgrade wizard. Improvements were also made to the performance and reliability of the .NET IDE (particularly the background compiler) and runtime. In addition, Visual Basic .NET 2003 was available in the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition (VS03AE).