Visual Basic 2005 Product Information
Visual Basic 2005 provides the easiest, most productive language and tool for rapidly building applications for Microsoft Windows, the Web, Mobile devices, and Microsoft Office development. Ideal for existing Visual Basic developers as well as new developers in the Microsoft .NET development environment, Visual Basic 2005 delivers enhanced visual designers, increased application performance, edit and continue, and a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) to get you on the fast track to application development.
- What's New in Visual Basic 2005
Review the improvements in Visual Basic 2005 that will help you write faster and more robust code, and with fewer errors. - Visual Basic 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Edition Comparison
Along with Visual Basic 2005 Express there are also several editions of Visual Studio 2005 that include Visual Basic. Click here to see a grid comparison of all the Visual Basic/Visual Studio editions. - System Requirements
Review the information on this page to determine the system requirements for running Visual Basic 2005. - Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005, the Integrated Development Enviroment for Visual Basic, provides a range of tools that offer many benefits for individual developers and software development teams. Learn more about this at the Visual Studio Developer Center. - Visual Basic Case Studies
Learn how companies around the globe have used Visual Basic to create solutions for their corporate needs.
- The LINQ Project
The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities.
- 101 LINQ Samples
These code samples, covering the entire range of LINQ functionality and demonstrating LINQ with SQL, DataSets, and XML, show you how to use LINQ in your applications.