Visual Basic evolved from the Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) language created by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. BASIC began as compiled language and was used for a significant amount of application development. VB.NET introduces exception handling to the VB 6.0programmer. The advantages offered by exception handling are in improving the readability of code and in improving the efficiency of code. This is in line with Microsoft’s view that the .NET framework is designed for scalability. The inline error handling of VB 6.0, particularly in large scale applications will create code that is difficult to maintain. One of the most common uses of VB 6.0 was create applications with database connectivity. VB.NET includes a range of support for these connection types, with the exclusion of DAO and RDO data binding capability.VB.NET also includes support for ADO.NET.

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