April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 4m
English
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Chapter 1. Visual Basic .NET andthe .NET Framework
Programming Visual Basic .NET is a comprehensive guide to the .NET version of the Visual Basic language and its use as a tool for programming on Microsoft’s .NET platform. One learns VB.NET specifically to create .NET applications; pretending otherwise would miss the point of the language. Thus, this book does not consider VB.NET in a vacuum but places the language firmly in the context of Microsoft’s .NET platform and in the development of desktop and Internet applications.
This chapter introduces both the Visual Basic .NET language and the .NET platform, including the .NET Framework.
Visual Basic and .NET
Once upon a time there was a programming language called Basic, which stood for Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. As the name suggests, Basic was intended to be as simple and accessible as possible for those unfamiliar with programming.
Then in 1991 Microsoft unveiled Visual Basic, a retooling of Basic that changed the way user interfaces were written. Visual Basic can still lay claim to being one of the most popular programming languages ever developed.
Visual Basic .NET is Microsoft’s reengineering of Visual Basic for the .NET platform. VB.NET departs in some significant ways from earlier versions of Visual Basic. In fact, some early adopters of VB.NET started calling it VB.NOT. VB.NET has evolved into a full-fledged object-oriented commercial software development package. Yet VB.NET also retains some of the ...
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