Chapter 12. VB 2005 Applications
The Visual Basic programming language has a history going back to the late 1980s. The first version debuted in 1991 and expanded to a huge user base very quickly.
The language has been a popular rapid-application development tool to create user interfaces and database applications. As it evolved over the years, from 16-bit to 32-bit to the current .NET version, a large pool of third-party commercial, shareware, and freeware components has been developed to support the VB community. These third-party components, along with the technologies added for each new version of Visual Basic, help enhance and extend VB's capabilities to create new types of applications.
The Visual Basic migration to support the .NET Framework involved significant changes and improvements and made the new generation of Visual Basic programs more efficient and able to perform tasks that were problematic or impossible in the pre-.NET version.
Visual Basic 2005 (VB 2005).NET Framework applications execute on top of the same Common Language Runtime (CLR) as Visual C# and Visual C++.NET Framework applications and have access to the same system resources through the .NET Framework.
With the release of .NET Compact Framework 1.0 in 2002, Visual Basic developers were able to develop applications for CE and Windows Mobile devices. As a subset to the .NET Framework, application development for the .NET Compact Framework was similar to the .NET Framework.
With the 2.0 release able to support ...
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