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what is difference between VB and VB.net

"pradip030384" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:5b9c7e2b04a1f93f905347d098a54735@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Lots, but as this group's about VBScript, and that's another different
language more akin to VB than VB.NET, then I suggest a web search, a VB or a
VB.NET group.
http://www.thescarms.com/vbasic/vb6vsvbnet.aspx

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name

VB (mostly VB 5 and 6) is a COM-centric programming system
for writing compiled Windows software, using mostly ActiveX
and the Win32 API. VB 5 and 6 each have their own 1 MB
runtime library.

VB was designed to be a "RAD" (rapid application
development) system that allowed for designing a program GUI
graphically and then writing the code behind it. In many cases
there are also components available that simplify complex coding
challenges. The idea was to provide a way for programmers to
learn something less abstruse and -- and program in something
less tedious -- than plain C++. In VB one can write software
that mainly uses the Win32 API, like traditional C++ software, but
one can also write very simple and quick programs by using
components.

VB.Net is a Java-like system that uses the .Net Framework
(a 70+ MB runtime, correlate to the Java VM). It creates
JIT-compiled "assemblies", designed for use where Java might
be used: in creating server-side components for Windows servers,
corporate intranet software, etc. Like Java, .Net software is designed
to be powererd by a runtime (one or more support libraries),
not directly connected to the operating system API, thus making
it cross-platform and safer to use than most compiled software.
Unlike Java, .Net is not really cross-platform (the latest version
only runs on XP SP2 and Vista) and it's not necessarily safe because
the exclusive dependence on the runtime can be supplemented by
the use of "unsafe" API calls.

In many ways VB.Net is to VB what Java is to C++.
VB.Net does not create compiled executables. VB does not
use the the .Net Framework. The numerous classes that are
built into VB.Net do not exist in VB. Etc. VB is for Windows
software. .Net, like Java, is more for server-side software
because of its slow speed, large runtime, and ease of
decompiling.

At Microsoft they've been wanting all "3rd-party" developers
to get switched over to .Net so that only Microsoft and their
partners would be directly using the Window platform -- the
Win32 API.
As part of the .Net marketing push, the name "VB.Net"
was shortened to just "VB" awhile back. So you might get different
answers to your question in different places. To many newer
VB.Net programmers, VB and VB.Net mean the same thing.

To reiterate what Joe Fawcett said, neither VB nor VB.Net
has anything to do with VBScript, and this is a VBScript group.
If you have a VB question try:

microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion

If you have a VB.Net question try any group with "dotnet"
in the name, such as:

microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb