A Management Overview
Why Visual Basic.Net?
 Visual Basic, the popular Rapid Application
Development (RAD) programming language, has undergone major changes with Microsoft's
.NET Framework. Visual Basic.Net is a still the "Visual Basic" used and loved by
millions of programmers, but it now has all the functionality of "C", "C++" or "C#".
VB.Net is an Object Oriented language incorporating Encapsulation, Inheritance and
Polymorphism. It is supported by the .NET Framework, which consists of the Common
Language Runtime (CLR) and a large class library.
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Visual Basic.NET is still the most productive programming language for RAD. It allows
robust Windows and Web applications to be created easily and quickly. It now incorporates
Web Services and ADO.NET. Then there is AJAX and Silverlight, LINQ, WPF, JavaScript,
CSS Intellisence, and lots more. Data access is easy with ADO.NET. There can be
data binding to any database, and XML representation of data. ADO.NET and VB.NET
provide high-speed access to SQL Server, and Microsoft Access databases.
The Visual Basic.Net IDE
Visual Basic.Net's Integrated Development Environment has:
- Structured exception handling
- A background compiler
- Real-time listing of syntax errors
- A new forms designer
- An editor with automatic control anchoring and docking
- Increased performance
- Automatic formatting of code as it is typed
- Improved IntelliSense
- An enhanced Object browser
- An XML designer
Website Development
Visual Basic.NET:
- Allows the creation of Web applications using the Web Forms Designer
- Has the familiar "drag and drop" for Server Controls.
- The code can respond to Server Control events.
- Comes with an enhanced HTML Editor for working with complex Web pages.
- Has IntelliSense technology and tag completion
- Has a helpful WYSIWYG editor for viewing and manipulating the HTML tag elements.
- Deployment is a simple copy. "DLL Hell" is now a thing of the past.
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