December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Introduction
Why Does This Book Exist?
This book is meant to give you a head start on the changes from Visual Basic to Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET). Most of the book assumes that you are comfortable with Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6), so the book endeavors to be a quick introduction to the major differences between VB6 and the new VB .NET.
I've been using Visual Basic since version 1.0. The most dramatic shift had been in the move from VB3 to VB4, when class modules were introduced, and VB started on its long, slow path to becoming object oriented. For the first time, you could build COM components in VB, leading to an explosion in n-tier application development. VB4 brought COM development to the average programmer, so it was no longer a technology ...