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Visual Studio Next Generation: Language Enhancements
New Features
This next generation of Visual Basic will provide a first class object oriented programming language with new features such as inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Additionally, developers will be able to create highly scalable code with explicit free threading and highly maintainable code with the addition of modernized language constructs like structured exception handling. Visual Basic will provide all the language characteristics that developers need to create robust, scalable distributed Web applications with the following new features:
New object oriented programming features
Additional modernized language features
A History of Language Innovation
The Visual Basic language has a long history of updates that map to fundamental
changes in the Windows® platform. For example, the significant changes
made to QuickBasic® to support Windows 3.0 GUI development resulted
in the first release of Visual Basic. In Visual Basic 4.0, the shift to COM-based
programming resulted in language constructs for creating DLLs. And in Visual
Basic 5.0, the language evolved to support the creation of COM controls.
With each successive revision, the popularity of Visual Basic has soared. The power that the new Visual Basic object-oriented language features provide developers building enterprise Web applications will most certainly continue this trend.
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The Object Oriented feature like Inheritance,Polymorphism,Encapsulation in Visual Basic is really a great achievement.Offcourse making a VB program as Multithreaded and allowing STructured exception handling is other great achievements.
But I beleive there is a potential drawback associated with VB.That is its languag construct.SImultaneously there should be effort in improving the Construct/Style of VB language.
Otherwise there will be a learning curve for any object oriented C++/Java developer to use VB.
It cannot be called as a ObjectOriented language unless the Construct of the language is similar to any of the ObjectOrieneted Language.
Ghanshyam.
I am not sure if you have your whole VB history down. I learned VB from a Version 2.0 Demo. Also, did you also know there was Visual Basic for DOS?
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