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Why VB.NET?

Introduction

Visual Basic... A name everybody knows for a rich, easy and GUI based programming language, making each & every task easier and improves programmer's productivity. VB has won the best RAD ( Rapid Application Development ) Tool award for three times and still keeping itself at top.

Many developers today talk about new generation programming languages and don't count VB 6.0 as a powerful tool for developing good programs, but i would like to present the surprising data about VB developers given by Bill Gates(The founder and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp.) -

Certainly this seems to be an amazing thing to talk about these details in the world of Internet Programming and when we know that Java has already taken place of most popular Internet programming language, but this is hard truth. The only feature lacking in VB was its Internet capabilities and when we are moving towards the third generation of the Internet, it becomes important to have strong Internet Programming capabilities for any programming language. The industry is focusing on critical distributed computing with web services capabilities. At this moment VB.NET is definitely a powerful tool to provide all these solutions in integrated environment of .NET technology. Let us discuss the major problems with VB 6.0, which has been creating troubles for VB developers for a long time.

In VB.NET all these shortcomings have been eliminated. we will discuss how VB.NET implements all these features in our subsequent articles one by one. In fact VB gets the most extensive changes of any existing language in the Visual Studio suite. Let us talk about the major features VB.NET has developed.

... and many more. The list is very long. Now we have to figure out that how important role VB will play in future? The answer is there in the words of Bill Gates once again -

"The next 10 years will be an amazing time for software developers. The advancements in the way we develop, deploy, and use applications will be as profound as the architectural shift from DOS- to Windows-based programming. Visual Basic.NET will provide the foundation for building the solutions that enable a new age of truly distributed computing on the Internet.

Microsoft sees the Visual Basic community as a core part of this vision. If you're new to this community, I welcome you to what promises to be an incredibly exciting era. If you're a seasoned Visual Basic developer, I thank you for continuing to make it the world's most popular development tool. I'm confident that Visual Basic.NET will give you the power to write cutting-edge software for tomorrow's Internet."