While earlier versions of Visual Basic are targeted for Microsoft Windows client applications, Visual Basic .NET is intended for creating XML Web service applications as well. For this purpose, Visual Basic .NET generates managed code for the common language runtime. This entails changes to the language itself.

The changes in Visual Basic .NET are intended to:
  • Simplify the language and make it more consistent.
  • Add new features requested by users.
  • Make code easy to read and maintain.
  • Help programmers avoid introducing coding errors.
  • Make applications more robust and easier to debug.

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