Visual Basic.Net Development

I have been developing with Visual Basic.Net since it came out.  I am previous VB 6 developer.  I am a huge, unabashed fan of Visual Basic.Net; I think it is the greatest language around.  It just seems to have gotten a bad rap, mostly due to myths and legends, and stubborn VB 6 die hards who didn't get on the .Net platform and have no idea what they are missing.

I can back all this up.  I will show you:

  • Visual Basic.Net is EASIER than VB 6, despite what every one believes.
  • VB.Net has all the power of .Net and is not second class to C#. 
  • In fact, there are many benefits to using VB.Net.

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Visual Basic.Net
A Few of My Favorite (.Net) Things
04/21/2007 - Although there are thousands of classes in the .Net framework, there are some that will use all the time. This article describes three, the Stringbuilder, Hashtable, and Arraylist that can make your code more efficient and get you in the mindset of programming the .Net way. It was written when .Net 1.1 was the current version. Read More...

VB.Net is Easy!
04/21/2007 - Still on VB 6? Do you believe the myth that VB.Net is harder than VB 6? Well you've been misled by everyone, even (especially) otherwise respectable magazines. In this article, I bust those myths with a few simple examples of how VB.Net is actually easier to work with than VB 6. Read More...