Visual Basic 7, or Visual Basic .Net as it is
more commonly known, is a relative new comer to the programming scene. It is a
major technology change. Just like the computer world moved from DOS to
Windows, now they are moving to .NET.
.NET technology was introduced by Microsoft, to catch the market from SUN's
Java. A few years back, Microsoft had only VC++ and VB to compete with Java,
but Java was catching the market very fast. With the world depending more and
more on the Internet/Web and java related tools becoming the best choice for
the web applications, Microsoft seemed to be losing the battle.
Thousands of
programmers moved to java from VC++ and VB. This was alarming for Microsoft and
many of the Microsoft fan's kept on asking "is Microsoft sleeping?" And
Microsoft had the answer. One fine morning, they announced: "We are not
sleeping. We have the answer for you."
And that answer was .NET.
Key Strengths of Visual Basic .Net
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Rapid Application Development
- With all it advancements, VB.Net is still a 'Visual' language. This means
that applications can be developed rapidly and the User Interface can be easily
developed and changed.
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True Object Orientation
- Some traditional C++ programmers used to call Visual Basic 6 a 'travesty' of
an object oriented language. No longer with VB.Net! VB.Net is a fully Object
Oriented language, complete with inheritance.
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Advanced Features - VB.Net comes with a rich new set of tools
that are more tightly bound to the Windows operating system. This allows for
greater control of how an application looks and behaves, as well as lending to
greater stability.
