Visual Basic .NET

Visual Basic .NET is the next revision of the popular Visual Basic programming language, which has roots in the BASIC programming language itself. Known for its rapid application development capability, Visual Basic .NET provides developers with the benefits of rapid development with a full-blown object-oriented (OO) programming language. Visual Basic .NET builds on the basic OO features present in Visual Basic and makes the object-orientedness of the language on par with that of Visual C# and even C++.

With its human-readable code syntax, Visual Basic .NET follows a task-oriented model. Focus on increased developer productivity still remains the core mantra for Visual Basic. Key features of the Visual Basic .NET programming ...

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