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Overview 1
Visual Studio.NET 2
Resources on .NET 8

Appendix A: Planning
for Microsoft .NET

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Visual Studio.NET
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Visual Basic.NET
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Visual C++.NET
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Visual C#

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Any procedure in your Visual Basic project can be
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Language Improvements
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Support for inheritance, polymorphism, and overloading
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Visual Basic.NET is the next step in the evolution of Microsoft Visual Basic
®
, a
popular application development tool. Visual Basic.NET incorporates many
new language features and IDE capabilities.
Web Forms
You can use Visual Basic.NET to develop a new type of project item—the Web
form. You can design Web forms from within Visual Basic.NET's IDE. Web