Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET Differences

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Microsoft also added other features to Visual Basic .NET …. Basic 6 ActiveX-based environment and the Visual Basic .NET environment, …

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Visual Basic 6 and Visual
Basic .NET: Differences
More than three years ago, the Microsoft Visual Basic team set out to create
Visual Basic .NET. At that time managers would kid the development team by
saying that they were making only three “simple” changes to Visual Basic 6: a
new runtime system, a new development environment, and a new compiler.
The Visual Basic development team spent the next three years working on one
of these changes: the new compiler. Two other teams provided the development
environment and runtime. As we pointed out in Chapter 1, the end result
is not a new version of Visual Basic 6 but an entirely new product: Microsoft
Visual Basic .NET. The name is important for two reasons. First, Visual Basic is
still Visual Basic. Second, Visual Basic .NET is not Visual Basic 7.
This chapter describes the three “simple” changes made to create Visual
Basic .NET, including changes to the runtime, the development environment,
and the compiler. Microsoft also added other features to Visual Basic .NET
along the way, including a new forms package and a new debugger, and these
are also discussed in this…