Visual Basic

Steve09 · 25 Sep 2006 at 16:22

Was my 1st day at University today \o/
There is a section on our course called
"Visual Basic in the dot net environment"

I know VB is a programming Language, but what is the "dot net" environment?
Thanks

Steve09 · 25 Sep 2006 at 16:37

/help anyone...

ns400r · 25 Sep 2006 at 16:40

Dot-NET consists of a number of technologies that allow software developers to build Internet-based distributed systems. Individual pieces of these systems, called software components, can be built using several different programming languages and by several different organizations. Through a common set of core functionality, Dot-NET allows these components to work reliably with each other.

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/softwareapplicationstools/l/aa020202a.htm

MagicalTrevor · 25 Sep 2006 at 16:47

its a library of often used code that you can include in your own programs, to save your self time.

Steve09 · 25 Sep 2006 at 17:08

oooo thank you

Inquisitor · 25 Sep 2006 at 18:14

MagicalTrevor said:
its a library of often used code that you can include in your own programs, to save your self time.

It's slightly more than that; as well as containing a very large library that you can use, it's also a runtime environment under which your programs will run, which abstracts and manages things like memory for you so that you don't have to worry about them.

Also, note that by Visual Basic, they actually mean VB.NET; VB and VB.NET are very different languages, so don't get them mixed up.

Good luck

Burnsy2023 · 25 Sep 2006 at 19:25

The .Net Framework includes the Common Runtime Environment, which works very much like Java's Virtual Machine (JVM) and therefore the code is allowed to be a lot more abstract, so you can concentrate on the end result rather then specific platform requirements.

Burnsy

Inquisitor · 25 Sep 2006 at 19:52

burnsy2023 said:
The .Net Framework includes the Common Runtime Environment, which works very much like Java's Virtual Machine (JVM) and therefore the code is allowed to be a lot more abstract, so you can concentrate on the end result rather then specific platform requirements.

Burnsy

Do you mean the Common Language Runtime?

Steve09 · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:00

I have no past experience with VB in the dot net environment.
The Teachers don't expect us to have any experience with it or anything on our Course, so what I'm asking is, if I attend every lesson, should it be easy enough to pick up?

Inquisitor · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:07

Yup. VB.NET isn't designed as a beginner's language though (not that it's hard to pick up), so you'll have to learn things like object oriented programming, which can be confusing at first. Just stick with it and you'll pick it up easily, though

Burnsy2023 · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:16

Inquisitor said:
Do you mean the Common Language Runtime?

Thats the one!

Burnsy

Steve09 · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:43

Inquisitor said:
Yup. VB.NET isn't designed as a beginner's language though (not that it's hard to pick up), so you'll have to learn things like object oriented programming, which can be confusing at first. Just stick with it and you'll pick it up easily, though

Yes, I am certainly going to stick with it mate

They mentioned OO too, this VB.net and OO is just for the 1st Year, then we choose a topic of our choice in the 2nd Year, certainly won't be Programming.
I like making Websites so I will probably go for that topic

Thanks m8