Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 is an evolution of the Visual Basic language that is engineered for productively building type-safe and object-oriented applications. Visual Basic allows developers to target Windows, Web, and mobile devices. As with all languages targeting the Microsoft .NET Framework, programs written in Visual Basic benefit from security and language interoperability.
This generation of Visual Basic continues the tradition of giving you a fast and easy way to create .NET Framework-based applications.
This version of Visual Basic brings back support for Edit and Continue and has new features for rapid application development. One of these features, called My, provides quick access to common tasks provided by the .NET Framework, as well as information and default object instances that are related to the application and its run-time environment. New language features include loop continuation, guaranteed resource disposal, operator overloading, generic types, and custom events. Visual Basic also fully integrates the .NET Framework and the common language runtime (CLR), which provide language interoperability, garbage collection, enhanced security, and versioning support.
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