Application #11. Key Visual Basic .NET Benefits

Visual Basic .NET offers a variety of innovations and enhancements over Visual Basic 6. This sample demonstrates several new features. They’re described in much greater detail in other applications in this series, but we’re providing a quick overview here just to whet your appetite. Figure 2-12 shows the sample application in action.

Figure 2-12. The sample application creates a thread and sends it off to run a particular procedure. Meanwhile, the original thread continues its work. It’s easy to do with Visual Basic .NET.

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