The Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET) programming language was first released by Microsoft in 2002 to replace the classic Visual Basic 6.  VB.NET is a fully object-oriented programming language implemented on the .NET Framework. It was created to cater for the development of the web as well as mobile applications. VB.NET remains as one of the most popular programming languages in the world.

Visual Basic .NET is an Object-Oriented programming language designed by Microsoft. With the word “Basic” being in the name of the language, you can already see that this is a language for beginners. There are people who criticize VB.NET because of the simplicity of the syntax, but VB.NET has the ability to create very powerful and sophisticated applications. VB.NET is a great place to start because of how easy and straight forward it is. The syntax is easy and you will not find yourself writing hundreds of lines of code as there are many shortcuts that make coding so much easier in this language.