August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 5m
English
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Preface
Microsoft Visual Basic began its life just over ten years ago as a kind of amalgamation of Microsoft’s QBasic programming language and a graphical interface design program developed in part by Alan Cooper. Since then, it has become by far the most popular programming language in the world, with an installed base that is estimated at five to eight million developers worldwide.
The tenth anniversary of Visual Basic coincides with the introduction of Microsoft’s new .NET platform, and with a totally revised and revamped version of VB named Visual Basic .NET. The language has been streamlined and modernized, and many old “compatibility” elements have been dropped from the language, while other language elements that were implemented as statements are now either functions or procedures.
In addition, many of you will be glad to hear that Visual Basic is now a fully object-oriented programming language, with the inclusion of the long sought-after class inheritance, as well as other OOP features.
We suspect that many of you will greet with mixed emotions, as do we, the fact that Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM), the technology that was at the core of Visual Basic since the release of Version 4.0, has been abandoned in favor of the .NET platform. On the one hand, we find this to be a great relief, because COM can be so complex and confusing. On the other hand, we find this somewhat irritating, because we have invested so much time and effort in learning and using COM. Finally, ...
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