This programming language virtually every programmer knows (or knows about its existence). Certainly there are many programming languages in the world today, but this one has a great potential and one of the favorite language of Microsoft. You’ve probably already guessed – it’s about Visual Basic.NET and it will be discussed in this article. Currently, many of developers from around the world use this programming language, so we can safely say that it is highly competitive.
Let’s review the history of programming languages and remember how it all began. In fact, “grandfather” of Visual Basic.NET is very old programming language – BASIC. It was created in 1960s and was intended to render complicated mathematical problems. The language was very difficult to understand, since its close approached the machine code level calculations, but gradually, wide spread of BASIC led to its reduction, also it was necessary to simplify it for new programmers. Therefore, in 1991, Microsoft has decided to create an intuitive simple programming language with graphical user interface – Visual Basic. The main purpose of language is ability to create effective applications in the shortest time. This programming language ensures maximum speed of writing code. In fact, Visual Basic is the first programming language that supports event-driven functions. Modern applications have a very complex structure, and describe every little detail is very difficult for a programmer. But event-driven features allow you to avoid some of the elements, specifying only a reaction to certain events. In this case, it is possible to greatly simplify the process of writing code and design of multi-level applications.
The main feature of Visual Basic.NET – it’s an object-oriented. These capabilities allow you to create large-scale, but at the same time flexible applications capable of further expansion. Unlike its predecessors, this language has been specifically designed for .NET Framework. Visual Basic.NET allows you to create applications specifically for the Windows operating system, providing them with optimum performance in this environment. Thanks to this programming language, you can create applications on very different subjects, ranging from multimedia applications to complex business programs. A set of tools in Visual Basic.NET allows you to save time and simplify the task for writing source code. When writing code with this programming language, algorithms are linked to some kind of event and are a signal for the start of the application. For example, we can see a graphical display of functions every time you click the mouse button, or as process progressing in time.
Microsoft has provided around the world not only a simple operating system, but also quite simple programming language designed to work in its environment. If you plan to connect Microsoft platform with the products of the global corporation, then you just need to learn Visual Basic.NET. The company’s specialists are working on the further improvement of the language software, introducing new features and capabilities. We can only follow the further advancement of new software updates in Visual Basic.