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Visual Studio Next Generation: Language Enhancements

Introduction

To rapidly build enterprise Web applications, developers must rely on business logic that is scalable, robust, and reusable. Over the past several years, object oriented programming has emerged as the primary methodology for building systems that meet these requirements. Using object oriented programming languages helps make large-scale systems easier to understand, simpler to debug, and faster to update.

While Visual Basic® has set the standard for rapid development of Windows applications, the lack of object-oriented language features has limited its acceptance for creating middle-tier components. To address this issue, the next generation of Visual Basic will add object-oriented language features to simplify the development of enterprise Web applications. With these new language features, Visual Basic will deliver all the power of C++ or Java while maintaining the instant accessibility that has made it the world's most popular development tool.

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  1. 12 Nov 2002 at 17:10
    The Object Oriented feature like Inheritance,Polymorphism,Encapsulation in Visual Basic is really a great achievement.Offcourse making a VB program as Multithreaded and allowing STructured exception handling is other great achievements.

    But I beleive there is a potential drawback associated with VB.That is its languag construct.SImultaneously there should be effort in improving the Construct/Style of VB language.
    Otherwise there will be a learning curve for any object oriented C++/Java developer to use VB.
    It cannot be called as a ObjectOriented language unless the Construct of the language is similar to any of the ObjectOrieneted Language.

    Ghanshyam.
  2. 01 Aug 2002 at 21:18

    I am not sure if you have your whole VB history down. I learned VB from a Version 2.0 Demo. Also, did you also know there was Visual Basic for DOS?

  3. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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