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What's New in VB.NET
Visual Basic developers need to get ready for the biggest transition they have
ever had to make. The next edition of VB (probably called Visual Basic.NET) is
designed to make web development as drag-and-drop easy as Visual Basic 1 made
Windows development. VB will be integrated into a completely new architecture
called Microsoft.NET, which is Microsoft's next generation development platform.
The result is huge changes. On the plus side, VB gets wonderful new capabilities
for web development, object orientation, error handling, threading control, and
much more. On the downside, numerous syntax incompatibilities will cause the
migration from older versions to be complex and painful. VB topics to be
discussed include new object oriented capabilities (full inheritance,
overloading, parameterized construction of class instances, and shared members
of classes), changes in data types, changes in argument passing and calling
conventions, and changes in syntax used to declare and initialize variables.
Syntax examples and demonstrations will be included whenever possible. On the
Visual Studio.NET side, the session will cover Web Forms, Web Services, changes
to the Visual Studio IDE, and an overview of the new Common Language Runtime,
which is the architectural reason for many of the coming changes. Attention will
also be focused on what you can do today to prepare for future capabilities. For
example, designing for easy migration to Web Forms will be discussed, and tips
will be included on making current code easy to convert by avoiding syntax which
will no longer be supported.
