vb & vb.net??????????

Question

whats the difference b/w vb & vb.net in terms of making projects????????????????????

Answer 1

The VB.Net studio programming software cannont be run on Windows 98, while VB6 Studio can.

VB.NET programs require the dot net framework to be installed on any PC which will run a program compiled with dot NET. The good news is that this only has to be done once and not each time you deploy an application.

Database enabled project are handled differently in DOTNET vs VB6. A dramatic improvment over VB6 I may add. However if you are a former VB6 programmer you will find that there are many changes.

Some ways you are used to doing things are no longer available, like control arrays and the MSComm control.
Simple graphic controls like the line and box are not available in DOT NET. There are some name changes, for example commandButtons are now Buttons, Option Buttons are now Radio Buttons. The variant data type has been replaced by an Object data type

VB.NET does offer an improved IDE. VBexpress will let you deploy an executable while the VB6 learning edition would not.
In VB.Net you can now DIM multiple data types on a single line as a particular data type

DIM x,y,z as Integer all three will be integer where in VB6 only the x would have been an integer while y & z would have defaulted to variant data types

You can now DIM variables any where and give them limited scope.

FOR x = 1 to 10
DIM z as double

Next

z has scope just within the FOR/NEXT loop in VB.net

Answer 2

VB.net can not be run in Windows 98? And where did that come from? Despite all my hatred for MS products and .NET specially, you CAN download the .NET framework for Windows 98/ME.