About Visual Basic. NET Visual Basic. NET , the next generation of the Visual Basic language at Microsoft, is designed to be a fast and easy way to create .NET applications, including Windows applications, Web Services, and Web applications.
NET also allows optional use of new language features.
Inheritance, method overloading, structured exception handling, and free threading all make Visual Basic a powerful object-oriented programming language. NET fully integrates with the .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime, which together provide language interoperability, simplified deployment, enhanced security, and improved versioning support. Articles Language Innovations in Visual Basic. NET by Microsoft Overview of some of the new language features of Visual Basic. NET integrates with the .NET Platform.