Visual Basic is engineered for productively building type-safe and object-oriented applications. Visual Basic enables 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.
Discusses various aspects of development in Visual Basic, such as the code editor, security, exception handling, debugging, and using the .NET Framework class library.
Provides information about key technology areas and tasks for application development, including creating, configuring, debugging, securing, and deploying your application. The topic also provides information about dynamic programming, interoperability, extensibility, memory management, and threading.