Visual Basic .NET is a major component of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET suite. The .NET version of Visual Basic is a new improved version with more features and additions. After these new additions, VB qualify to become a full object-oriented language such as C++. In this article, I will try to introduce you to VB.NET and will cover new additions to the language. I will also compare VB 6.0 and VB.NET and how to develop simple applications in VB.NET.