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Visual Basic .NET

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Visual Basic .NET is the second series of Microsoft's award-winning Visual Basic series. It is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and it includes an easy 'drag-and-drop' interface. It can make complete programs for Windows very easily.

Background

Visual Basic

See also: Visual Basic

First released in 1991 by Microsoft. Visual Basic is the simplest way to make programs for Windows. It was prototyped as Project Ruby by Alan Cooper and then sold to Microsoft. The system is built loosely on the original BASIC programming language released in 1963 and it can 'Test' programs in real-time, error checking them in a user-friendly way.

.NET Framework

This package is the 'backbone' of Visual Basic .NET. When applications are created, the Windows Installer packages the framework with it. It includes all the items needed to run the VB.NET applications that have been made.

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