As a veteran Visual Basic developer, you have undoubtedly invested a lot of time and effort in learning the intricacies of Visual Basic. At first glance, it may appear to you that Visual Basic .NET is so radically different from what you know that you will have to learn it all over again. In reality, while many things have changed, the overall experience of developing in Visual Basic remains essentially the same. Your knowledge of Visual Basic will help you immediately become productive in Visual Basic .NET.
There are, however, a number of changes to Visual Basic that will require you to adjust your mindset and set aside some old habits. Some of the rules for the language, tasks such as debugging and deployment, and even some terminology have changed — often in subtle ways. Ultimately, the changes make Visual Basic easier and more powerful than ever before.


作為一個(gè)老練的Visaul Basic開發(fā)者，你無(wú)疑花了很多時(shí)間努力去研究Visual Basic的復(fù)雜性。Visual Basic.NET給你的第一印象是它和你所知道的完全不同，所以你不得不將重新學(xué)習(xí)它。實(shí)際上，盡管許多東西改變了,但Visual Basic的綜合開發(fā)經(jīng)驗(yàn)在本質(zhì)上還是沒變的。所以你的Visual Basic 知識(shí)將幫助你立即很好的學(xué)習(xí)Visual Basic.NET.
然而，與Visual Basic相比的很多改變要求你必須去調(diào)節(jié)你的固定思維，還得拋棄一些老習(xí)慣。一些語(yǔ)言規(guī)則、任務(wù)，比如調(diào)試和設(shè)置，甚至是一些術(shù)語(yǔ)經(jīng)常在細(xì)微的方面發(fā)生了變化。最終，這些改變使Visual Basic比以前更簡(jiǎn)單，功能更強(qiáng)大。下面的主題將幫助你從一個(gè)Visual Basic 6.0的展望中去識(shí)別Visual Basic.NET的不同之處。
Visual Basic .NET 2003包含以下的改進(jìn)，他們使你在寫代碼時(shí)更快，更少出錯(cuò)，并且還擴(kuò)大了用戶的范圍。