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.


作為一個老練的Visaul Basic開發(fā)者，你無疑花了很多時間努力去研究Visual Basic的復雜性。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習它。實際上，盡管許多東西改變了,但Visual Basic的綜合開發(fā)經(jīng)驗在本質(zhì)上還是沒變的。所以你的Visual Basic 知識將幫助你立即很好的學習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，還得拋棄一些老習慣。一些語言規(guī)則、任務，比如調(diào)試和設(shè)置，甚至是一些術(shù)語經(jīng)常在細微的方面發(fā)生了變化。最終，這些改變使Visual Basic比以前更簡單，功能更強大。下面的主題將幫助你從一個Visual Basic 6.0的展望中去識別Visual Basic.NET的不同之處。
Visual Basic .NET 2003包含以下的改進，他們使你在寫代碼時更快，更少出錯，并且還擴大了用戶的范圍。