Visual Basic.NET is the most popular programming language developed and
owned by Microsoft. Its initial version was known as Visual Basic.
Visual Basic was very popular because it provided all the programming
tools that worked graphically to build programs for windows operating
system.
Visual Basic.NET provides unique and complete
software architecture with fully object oriented approach. Because the
.NET architecture was introduces with a radical change the Visual Basic
.NET is not backwards-compatible with VB6, meaning that earlier
versions of Visual Basic have to be rewritten before they can be used
with .NET.
VB.NET runs on top of Microsoft's .NET framework.
All the benefits of .NET Framework like CLR (common language runtime),
CLS (common language specifications), Enhanced Classes, Teamwork
Programming and more are included in VB .NET. Visual Basic .NET comes
with enhanced visual designers, increased application performance, and
a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) which facilitates
rapid application development for Windows and Web applications.
Moreover, VB.NET has wonderful new capabilities for web development,
object-orientation, error handling, threading control, and much more.
Data access using ADO.NET is very flexible as well as it provides true
XML representation of data. Using ADO.NET, Visual Basic .NET can gain
high-speed access to MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access, and
more.
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