Visual Basic® .NET! I Didn't Know You Could Do That...TM

Visual Basic .NET is the most significant upgrade to VB since its first release ten years ago. It is the essential piece of Microsoft's upgrade to Visual Studio, which also includes the new language C# and Visual C++.NET. The new VStudio release is significant because for the first time, Microsoft will have a common development environment for all its languages. VB has many new object-oriented features, making it an equal citizen with other popular languages, such as C++ and Java. Currently there are more than 4 million VB programmers and we expect a large number to migrate to the new version over the next few years.