Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET: Differences

More than three years ago, the Microsoft Visual Basic team set out to createVisual Basic .NET. At that time managers would kid the development team bysaying that they were making only three “simple” changes to Visual Basic 6: anew runtime system, a new development environment, and a new compiler.The Visual Basic development team spent the next three years working on oneof these changes: the new compiler. Two other teams provided the develop-ment environment and runtime. As we pointed out in Chapter 1, the end resultis not a new version of Visual Basic 6 but an entirely new product: MicrosoftVisual Basic .NET. The name is important for two reasons. First, Visual Basic isstill Visual Basic. Second, Visual Basic .NET is not Visual Basic 7.

This chapter describes the three “simple” changes made to create VisualBasic .NET, including changes to the runtime, the development environment,and the compiler. Microsoft also added other features to Visual Basic .NETalong the way, including a new forms package and a new debugger, and theseare also discussed in this chapter.

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