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DEFINITION - Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET or VB .NET) is a version of Microsoft's Visual Basic that was designed, as part of the company's .NET product group, to make Web services applications easier to develop. According to Microsoft, VB .NET was reengineered, rather than released as VB 6.0 with added features, to facilitate making fundamental changes to the language. VB.NET is the first fully object-oriented programming (OOP) version of Visual Basic, and as such, supports OOP concepts such as abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and aggregation.

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Jumping into Visual Studio as an Industry Partner: Learn about the three membership tiers in the Visual Studio Industry Partner program.

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Tools for the .NET Developer: This feature highlights development tools that augment all phases and types of .NET application development.
LINQ and XML programming in Visual Basic 9: As Visual Basic 9 nears its release, Microsoft is making a concerted effort to introduce developers to its new features. Chief among those are LINQ, IntelliSense and XML.
Mini-Guide: The VB.NET Development Environment, Part 1: This learning guide series contains 24 video tutorials from Microsoft that will quickly familiarize you with the development environment. Don't delay – get started today.
Choosing VB.NET or C# Learning Guide: One of the biggest questions facing Visual Basic 6 developers is whether to make the jump to C# or to VB.NET. This Learning Guide aims to make that decision-making process easier.
Visual Studio 2005 Learning Guide: We've added a plethora of articles, tips, book excerpts and other references to this learning guide, which dives deeply into Microsoft's IDE for application development.
MiniGuide: Parallel programming in .NET: Microsoft's Parallel Extension for .NET 3.5 opens up .NET developers to the world of parallel programming. This Mini Guide provides information on the parallel paradigm shift.
Book Excerpt: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours -- Complete Starter Kit: This book is for programmers at all levels who either want to learn Visual Basic 2008 or have semi mastered it and would like some useful tips and tricks.
Advanced Windows Debugging Book Chapter and Podcast: This book excerpt and podcast offers information that will help you to master some of the most powerful debugging tools, including NTSD, CDB, WinDbg, KD, and ADPlus.
Fast guide: Silverlight blogs: These blogs are a compilation of valuable Silverlight news, how-tos, insights and Silverlight knowledge that comes directly from the experiences of actual developers.
Visual Studio Team System Add-ins: Conchango Scrum for Team System and Scrum Dashboard: This tip helps you to get a better understanding of what Scrum is, how it works, and how two of its add-ins work together to bring Scrum into the Visual Studio environment.

LAST UPDATED: 07 Aug 2008

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More resources from around the web:
- Dan Clark explains the evolution of Visual Basic in the first chapter of his book, "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET."
- SearchVB.com has Ask the Expert response highlighting the differences between Visual Basic 6.0 and VB.NET
- Also from SearchVB.com, a VB-to-VB.NET Learning Guide
- Also from SearchVB.com, a special report on VB-to-VB.NET migration





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