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Difference Between VB.

NET and Visual Basic

VB.NET stands for Visual Basic. Network Enabled Technologies. Microsoft released the .NET
platform in 2001, that supports Visual Basic .NET which is an upgrade to the last version of VB
programming language. It is a high-level programming language for the Microsoft .NET
Framework. It is also possible to run VB.NET on Linux and MAC operating systems.

Visual Basic or VB is a programming language was initially released in 1991. It was the first
programming language that directly supported programmable graphical user interface using
language-supplied objects. From that time until 2002, there were 7 other versions released, each
version having features that increased the power of the language.

Difference Between VB.NET and Visual Basic:

Parameters VB .NET Visual Basic

Programming
VB.NET is an object-oriented Visual Basic is Event Driven
Language
programming language. programming language.
Paradigm

IntelliSense VB.NET supports It does not supports IntelliSense


compatibility IntelliSense compatibility. compatibility.

It is a compiled typed
It is an Interpreter based language
Type language

It supports the concept of It does not support the


Multithreaded multithreaded. multithreaded concept.

Type-safe It is a type-safe language. It is not a type-safe language.

In VB.NET , VARIANT and In Visual Basic VARIANT and


CURRENCY variable are CURRENCY, variables are used
Changes in Data removed and a DECIMAL and a DECIMAL variable is not
type variable is introduced. introduced.

Parameter In VB.NET parameters are In Visual Basic parameters are


passing passed by a value. passed by reference.

In VB, data is handled using DAO


In VB.NET, data is handled
protocol, after that RDO, is followed
using ADO.net
Data Handling by ADO.
Parameters VB .NET Visual Basic

Visual Basic is an interpreted


In VB.NET background language in this each statement is
compilation takes place interpreted at a time to be converted
continuously for every valid into object code, then into source
Background statement. code so there is no background
Compilation compilation.

VB.NET uses the Common


Visual Basic uses the common
Runtime Language Runtime
Visual Basic Runtime environment.
Environment environment.

There is no shape control


There is a shape control and line
and line control in VB.NET
control in Visual Basic form.
Forms form.

Short Circuit In VB.NET, Short Circuit In Visual Basic, there is no concept


Logic Logic is available. of Short Circuit Logic.

In VB.NET we can create


different types of applications Visual Basic is not versatile for
such as console applications, creating different types of
web applications, windows applications.
Application applications.
Development

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