Conclusion

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Visual Basic .NET is a powerful new language that's built on a very sophisticated platform. It has a lot of features that developers can leverage to produce better-designed applications and systems. In addition, the language and the platform have many aspects that make large-scale development projects more feasible . The introduction of true implementation inheritance alone is a boon to enterprise developers, but other language and compiler features are also important to maintain coding standards in large projects.

We recommend that you take what you can from this chapter (there's a lot here) and run with it. You can always come back to pick up additional snippets, but don't be intimidated by the density of the content. Above all, when you start a project, set standards. Visual Basic .NET has a number of features (some of which we just covered) that can help you do this.

Try to focus on the design practices that will benefit your application. Without a good design, an application is just a pile of code that someone threw together and that creates a maintenance nightmare. This is especially true in larger companies in which people don't necessarily hang around long in the same position. Nobody likes being saddled with someone else's castoffs.

The bottom line is that Visual Basic .NET is an exciting new language and platform, so go forth and code ”but have fun, too.

More Info

For more information about using Visual Basic .NET in a team development environment, see Appendix A.


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Designing Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Designing Enterprise Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Pro-Developer)
ISBN: 073561721X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 103

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