Visual Basic .NET was Microsoft's reworking of the Visual Basic language to run on the .NET Framework and its Common Language Runtime. Unlike earlier versions, it was fully object-oriented and compiled to the same intermediate language as C#, which broke compatibility with classic Visual Basic 6 and forced many programmers to rewrite or substantially change existing code. It was introduced in 2001 as part of Microsoft's .NET initiative, with the first stable release arriving together with Visual Studio .NET in early 2002. The language kept a readable, English-like syntax and remained popular for business and database applications, although Microsoft later stopped adding major new features to it while C# became the main language of the platform.
Before and after
- 2001Founding of Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- 2001Establishment of Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park
- 2001Creation of C#
- 2001Release of Google Earth
- 2001Creation of Visual Basic .NET
- 8 January 2001Construction of Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
- 15 January 2001Release of Drupal
- 15 January 2001Release of English Wikipedia
- 15 January 2001Founding of Creative Commons
More in Science & technology
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
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