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Introduction to Visual Basic

Introduction to Visual Basic - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Introduction to Visual Basic

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- [Narrator] Before we get into programming much with visualbasic.net. First off we keep referring to it as .NET and that's simply to separate it from the classic visual basic. When visual basic was created it was intended for ease of use and learning. So that someone can come in and learn about how to program without having to learn a lot. To reduce that learning curve, it was derived from a language that's referred to as BASIC. Which was built, again, as a user friendly programming language designed for beginners. Now here's the key, being part now of the .NET Framework, what happens is that everything gets reduced in what's referred to as the common language run time. At run time, it all gets compiled in such a way that you can use whatever language you want within that .NET framework and pretty much have the power of any other language within the framework and so a lot of times the old addage or thought was that visual basic lacked the power of using other languages to accomplish…

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