Oct 6, 2010 · This way for VB programmers it didn't become a binding to learn a completely new language (C#) syntax from scratch to start writing new applications targeting .NET framework. Compilation logistics of VB series of languages: Visual Basic => Compiled to native code packaged inside *.dll or *.exe files. VB script => An interpreted language. It is ...

Feb 20, 2014 · There are many different versions of VB which predated .NET (e.g. VB6, VB5, VBA, VBScript). Since VB.NET is an entirely different language than its predecessors (but obviously based upon them), it was decided that the name of the language would be VB.NET so as to distinguish it from the other VB languages and versions.

Feb 7, 2009 · The first thing to know about learning C# is that it is not pronounced "C#.net", it is just C#. Microsoft tacked on ".NET" to VB, because there was a previous version of VB that didn't work on the .NET Framework.

Feb 1, 2016 · Option Strict On Option Infer On Imports System.Net Imports System.Net.Sockets Imports System.Text Imports System.Threading Imports System.Net.NetworkInformation ''' <summary> ''' TCP Chat ....

Dec 5, 2016 · I also was looking for information on Asynchronous programming in VB. In addition to this thread, I also found the following: beginning with Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5, VB was given two new keywords to make a method asynchronous right in the declaration, without using Thread or Threadpool. The new keywords are "Async" and "Await".

Apr 18, 2012 · I worked in a shop in Lincoln where the best programmer in the company used VB.NET exclusively -- he even managed to work in some high-level functional programming concepts in his code. The worst application was a C# app written by some very inexperienced (or possibly malicious) offshore developers.

Sep 21, 2012 · CPLEX can be used in VB.NET through the CPLEX/Concert .NET API which is a standard API supplied with the solver and is pretty straightforward to use. There is a good documentation available including this example and this tutorial .

Oct 7, 2013 · Socket programming and telnet with VB.net. 1. Binding & connecting using sockets in vb.net. 1.

Jun 27, 2015 · Modules are by no means deprecated and are used heavily in the VB language. It's the only way for instance to implement an extension method in VB.Net. There is one huge difference between Modules and Classes with Static Members. Any method defined on a Module is globally accessible as long as the Module is available in the current namespace.

Jul 16, 2012 · VB.NET is a modern language, having the same capabilities as C#, but the syntax is terrible, so I personally prefer C#. VBA is an interpreted language, while VB.NET is compiled. If you are interested in Office programming, you might consider doing your next Office project in VB.NET and VSTO, which is the modern alternative to VBA.