A Few Words about Visual Basic 6.0

The Visual Basic family has earned its keep and its reputation by being a framework in which you can easily build Windows applications. Originally based on the Ruby Forms engine, Visual Basic caught fire because it allowed programmers to visually create GUIs. The biggest change that Visual Basic programmers have had to deal with in the long evolution of the framework (until now) was the shift from VB 4.0 to VB 5.0, when Visual Basic became entirely based on and integrated into COM.

The changes that Visual Basic programmers had to deal with then are nothing compared with the changes that we are faced with today. Visual Basic .NET, as a language , has been morphed radically to take advantage of the .NET Framework. Visual Basic .NET, as a visual application design tool, will look very similar to what you are used to. The difference is that the tools aren't limited to Visual Basic programmers; the WinForms library is available to all .NET languages.