Thursday Evening

6.30VB.NET Introduction

7.30Break for food

8.00VB.NET Migration

8.45Q & A

9.00Done

Visual Basic .NETIntroduction

Mike TaultyDeveloper & Platform GroupMicrosoft Ltdmtaulty@microsoft.comhttp://mtaulty.com

Agenda

Scene setting

The Common Language Runtime

The VB.NET Language

The .NET Framework & applications

Where did we get to with VB6?

Millions of developers worldwide

The productivity toolVB6 = Language + IDE + RuntimeRuntime deployed “everywhere”

SupportExtended (paid) phase: 2005 to 2008Runtimes (OS shipped) unaffectedVBA unaffected

A fragmented platform

Windows API

Stateless,Stateless,Code embeddedCode embeddedin HTML pagesin HTML pages

Sub-classing,Sub-classing,Power,Power,

ExpressivenessExpressiveness

RAD,RAD,Composition,Composition,

DelegationDelegation

VB Forms MFC & ATL ASP

Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Common Language Runtime

Consistent API availability regardless ofConsistent API availability regardless oflanguage and programming modellanguage and programming model

Different Tools

Different Languages

Different Libraries (API’s)

Where are we with VB.NET?

.NET Version 1.1Separation of runtime, library, language and IDEServer 2003*, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 9890 million downloads from Windows UpdateSDK, Redistributable (23MB), Service Pack 1Dates: 2000, 2003, 2008, 2013

Version 2.0 on its way…

And where are we going?And where are we going?

Builds on the .NET Framework

Well-structured programming framework for Windows

Continued commitment to backwards compatibility

Builds on the .NET Framework

Well-structured programming framework for Windows

Continued commitment to backwards compatibility

Agenda

Scene setting

The Common Language Runtime

The VB.NET Language

The .NET Framework & applications

Common Language Runtime

VisualBasic C# C++

Compiler Compiler Compiler

.NET Assembly

Metadata

Code (CIL)

Common Language Runtime

.NET Assembly

Metadata

Code (CIL)

Code (CIL)

Common Type System (CTS)

Int16

Int32

float

double

string

object

Common Intermediate Language (CIL)

.ldstr “Hello World”

BaseClassLibrary

Metadata

Type Definitions

Classes Fields Methods

Params Events …

Type References

Assemblies Modules Methods

Fields Classes …

Common Language Runtime

Common LanguageRuntime (CLR)

Class Loader

IL to NativeCompilers

CodeManager

GarbageCollector

Security Engine Debug Engine

Type Checker Exception Manager

Thread Support COM Marshaler

Base Class Library Support

.NET Assembly

Metadata

Code (CIL)

Native Code

0101010101010101010101010101010100101011

Verified?

Permitted?

Assemblies & CLR Services

Agenda

Scene setting

The Common Language Runtime

The VB.NET Language

The .NET Framework & applications

VB Language for .NET

OO additions

Exception handling

Event handling

Properties

Namespaces

Attributes

Parameters

ArraysShort-circuiting logici++, i += 2Data Type changes

Visual Basic on .NET

Agenda

Scene setting

The Common Language Runtime

The VB.NET Language

The .NET Framework & applications

System

System.Data System.Xml

System.Web

Globalization

Diagnostics

Configuration

Collections

Resources

Reflection

Net

IO

Threading

Text

ServiceProcess

Security

Design

OleDb

SqlTypes

SqlClient

XPath

XSLT

RuntimeInteropServices

Remoting

Serialization

Serialization

Configuration SessionState

Caching Security

ServicesDescription

Discovery

Protocols

UIHtmlControls

WebControls

System.Drawing

Imaging

Drawing2D

Text

Printing

System.Windows.Forms

Design ComponentModel

The .NET Framework

Unified Tools, Libraries, Platform

Operating SystemOperating System

Common Language RuntimeCommon Language Runtime

Base Class LibraryBase Class Library

ADO.NET and XMLADO.NET and XML

ASP.NETASP.NET WindowsWindowsFormsForms

Common Language SpecificationCommon Language Specification

VBVB C++C++ C#C# JScriptJScript J#J#V

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Web ServicesWeb Services Web FormsWeb Forms

Unified Tools, Libraries, Platform

Operating SystemOperating System

Common Language RuntimeCommon Language Runtime

Base Class LibraryBase Class Library

ADO.NET and XMLADO.NET and XML

ASP.NETASP.NET WindowsWindowsFormsForms

Common Language SpecificationCommon Language Specification

VBVB C++C++ C#C# JScriptJScript J#J#V

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Web ServicesWeb Services Web FormsWeb Forms

Building Apps with VB.NET

Resources

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun

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