vb.net

Introduction to VB.Net

Windows opened up the world of event-driven programming. The big advantage in a Windows program is the abstraction of the hardware. Windows wraps up the functionality by providing generic routines that communicate with the drivers written by the manufacturers hardware. These generic routines are referred to as the Windows API (Application Programming Interface).


Visual Basic

Microsoft introduced Data Access Objects (DAO), which allowed programmers to manipulate data in VB 3.0. Version 6.0, gave us a new way to access databases with the integration of ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). ADO was developed by Microsoft to aid web developers using ASP to access databases.


VB.Net

The windows in the IDE(Integrated Development Environment) can float or be dockable. There are different windows available. They are:

Server Explorer

The Server Explorer gives us mangement access to the servers on our network. Here we can create database connections, and vie...