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Hi
How to start learning VB.NET???What's the Start window?Why all s/w companies are now changing thier platforms to .NET.What is the merits & craze of this rather than other platforms?How it is differ from VB?

[Lop]

VB 6.0 and all Visual Studio Languages prior to .NET had their own libraries and it was hard to switch from one language to the next. With the new .NET language you can easily port your applications from one language to the next. .NET allows your application to run on any computer that has .NET installed which makes it convenient but a pain as well. Most users do not stay current with the .NET releases. Companies are switching to it because Microsoft is saying they should...... The .NET programming is much easier and less buggy than the old one.

[TcM]

Yeah but it has less security and the softwares are being decompiled and converted back to code! = Cracking Software is Simpler!!

[AfTriX]

Hey I'm just giving you some overview, which I have got from Google Search Results. And It was basically compared with VB

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) implemented on the Microsoft .NET framework. Its introduction has been controversial, as significant changes were made that broke backward compatibility with VB and caused a rift within the developer community.

The great majority of VB.NET developers use Visual Studio .NET as their integrated development environment (IDE). SharpDevelop provides an open-source alternative IDE.

Like all .NET languages, programs written in VB.NET require the .NET framework to execute.