In this article, I have shared essential information like Overview, Brief History, Features and Applications of VB.NET programming language.
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B.NET is a simple, modern, object-oriented computer programming language developed by Microsoft to combine the power of .NET Framework and the common language runtime with the productivity benefits that are the hallmark of Visual Basic.
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is a multi-paradigm computer programming language implemented on the .NET Framework. Although it is an evolution of classic Visual Basic language, it is not backwards-compatible with VB6, and any code written in the old version does not compile under VB.NET.
Like all other .NET languages, VB.NET has complete support for object-oriented concepts. Everything in VB.NET is an object, including all of the primitive types (Short, Integer, Long, String, Boolean, etc.) and user-defined types, events, and even assemblies. All objects inherit from the base class Object.
VB.NET is implemented by Microsoft’s .NET framework. Therefore, it has full access to all the libraries in the .NET Framework. It’s also possible to run VB.NET programs on Mono, the open-source alternative to .NET, not only under Windows but even Linux or Mac OSX.
The following reasons make VB.NET a widely used professional language:-
1. Modern, general-purpose.
2. Object-oriented.
3. Component oriented.
4. Easy to learn.
5. Structured language.
6. It produces efficient programs.
7. It can be compiled on a variety of computer platforms.
8. Part of .NET Framework.
The .NET Framework
The .NET framework is a revolutionary platform that helps you to write the following types of applications:-
- Windows applications
- Web applications
- Web services
The .NET framework applications are multi-platform applications. The framework has been designed in such a way that it can be used from any of the following languages: Visual Basic, C#, C++, Jscript, and COBOL, etc.
All these languages can access the framework as well as communicate with each other.
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) For VB.NET
Microsoft provides the following development tools for VB.NET programming:-
- Visual Studio 2010 (VS)
- Visual Basic 2010 Express (VBE)
- Visual Web Developer
The last two are free. Using these tools, you can write all kinds of VB.NET programs from simple command-line applications to more complex applications. Visual Basic Express and Visual Web Developer Express edition are trimmed down versions of Visual Studio and has the same look and feel.
Brief History:-
1. VB.NET is a multi-paradigm programming language developed by Microsoft on the .NET framework. It was launched in 2002 as a successor to the Visual Basic language. This was the first version of VB.NET (VB.NET 7.0) and it relied on .NET version 1.0.
2. In 2003, the second version of VB.NET, VB.NET 7.1, was released. This one relied on .NET version 1.1.
3. In 2005, VB.NET 8.0 was released. The .NET core portion was dropped from its name so as to distinguish it from the classical Visual Basic language. This version was named Visual Basic 2005.
4. In 2008, VB 9.0 was introduced. In 2010, Microsoft released VB 2010 (code 10.0).
5. In 2012, VB 2012 (code 11.0) was release together with .NET 4.5.
6. In 2015, VB 2015 (code 14.0) was released alongside Visual Studio 2015. The “?.” operator was introduced to do inline null checks.
7. In 2017, VB 2017 (code 15.0) was introduced alongside Visual Studio 2017. A better way of organizing source code in just a single action was introduced.
8. 2019 (VB 16.0) Visual Basic 2019 (code named VB “16.0”) was released with Visual Studio 2019. The first version of Visual Basic focused on .NET Core.
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