VB.net: It will be a beautiful beyond 10 years ...

VB.net: It will be a beautiful beyond 10 years ...

Ten years ago, Microsoft launched the first version of VB, ten years later, Microsoft launched the first vb.net version.
Looking back, VB 10 years is undoubtedly beautiful, is that it changed the computing world, is it to allow the development of Windows applications, it is currently the most easily learn the most productive language of programming languages. According to statistics, VB programmers are still in short supply.
But, "The land is more talent, each leading a few decades", in the computing world, everything is changing rapidly, including language. Some languages have disappeared and some have become new languages. VB is mainly used to develop Windows applications, it is easy to learn because it hides a lot of things at the bottom of the system, and because of this, VB so that developers can not go deep into the more beautiful "details." When people meaning these, VB's side suddenly emerged a lot of competitors, One of the most powerful is Delphi.
Delphi is undoubtedly a great tool. It has the fastest compiler, it has the powerful data support, it has the most perfect Object Pascal language. The main thing is that Delphi can always foresee some changes and improve in time. With OLE Automation support, multiple record objects, 2.0 Visual form inheritance, and so on, 4.0 added the Appbrowser editor, improved COM support, extended database components, as well as control parking constraints, and so on, 5.0 expanded the database for ADO support, added a framework concept, now 6.0 Add Web Services, XML support, etc. .
The development and change of Delphi and increasingly strong, should be a great touch to Microsoft. Everything in the world is changing all the times. And this change can be benign development is not from the internal changes in demand. So Microsoft also to its beloved VB raised Broadsword and Big axe.
Microsoft has redesigned VB, launched the vb.net, the old language is no longer suitable. NET Framework. VB.net is not a VB7, but a qualitative change of VB6, which is the result of Microsoft's drastic changes to VB. And this change is not a choice for Microsoft. Somehow, I always feel that there are too many C++,java and Delphi Shadows in VB.net, I am glad that Microsoft can put down the shelf and humbly say "bring it" to others.
It's been nearly a year with vb.net, I went to CCW as a moderator also have a period of time, but the old feel that the vb.net people are not much, the old feel too many people have too much distrust of vb.ne. In fact, these fears are totally unnecessary. Think about it, Everything that Microsoft launched, it wasn't orchestrated, although vb.net has the limitations of the. NET Framework (meaning that vb.net applications are inseparable from the. NET Framework), this may reveal one of Microsoft's ambitions: In the next ten years, I want to have mine on every computer. NET Framework.
At this point, I also suddenly enlightened, the rain also stopped, the sky is clear.
We should, like vb.net, put our eyes and energy into this beautiful decade, I think, ten years later, we can proudly say to their son:
"I've crossed this beautiful decade with vb.net."