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February
2002 - Volume 1, Issue 1
Visual
Basic .NET
Microsoft Visual
Basic .NET is the new version of the Visual Basic development system,
redesigned to enable easy development of next-generation XML Web
services, while continuing its tradition of rapid application development
for Microsoft Windows applications. According to Microsoft Corp.
rather than simply adding some new features to Visual Basic 6.0,
Visual Basic .NET was built from the ground up on the .NET Framework.
This enables Visual Basic developers, to take advantage of the enhancements
in Visual Basic .NET to build enterprise-critical distributed n-tier
systems.
With Visual
Basic .NET, you now have access to a significantly richer and more
powerful toolset than you had in previous versions of Visual Basic.
Driven by strong customer demand, Visual Basic .NET delivers an
extensive set of new features, including full object-oriented design
capabilities, free-threading, and direct access to the .NET Framework.
In addition, the Visual Basic language has been streamlined, removing
obsolete legacy keywords, improving type safety, and exposing the
low-level constructs that advanced developers require. To deliver
these features, several syntax changes have been made to the language.
Visual Basic
.NET now fully integrates with the other Microsoft Visual Studio®
.NET languages. Not only can you develop application components
in different programming languages, but your classes can now inherit
from classes written in other languages using cross-language inheritance.
With the unified debugger, you can now debug multiple language applications,
regardless of whether they are running locally or on remote computers.
Finally, whatever language you use, the Microsoft .NET Framework
provides a rich set of application programming interfaces (APIs)
for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Internet.
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