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Difference Between VB and VB

VB.NET is a modern, object-oriented programming language that is part of the .NET framework, whereas VB (also called VB6) is an older, non-object oriented language no longer actively supported. VB.NET uses the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) which compiles code and has an improved garbage collector compared to the VB6 runtime environment that interpreted code.

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Difference Between VB and VB

VB.NET is a modern, object-oriented programming language that is part of the .NET framework, whereas VB (also called VB6) is an older, non-object oriented language no longer actively supported. VB.NET uses the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) which compiles code and has an improved garbage collector compared to the VB6 runtime environment that interpreted code.

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Difference between VB and VB.

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 VB.NET is a modern, object-oriented language. VB (Classic)
is its predecessor, and it's no longer actively maintained.

 Up to version 6, it was known as VB. From version 7, which


was released with .Net 1.0, it was known as VB.NET.

 Visual Basic.NET is one of the language tools supported


within the larger Visual Studio .NET suite. Visual Basic
.NET is based on a newer programming model than is VB6.
The VB Classic IDE is unsupported as of April 8, 2008.

 VB6 was interpreter based language while VB.NET is a


compiled language.

 VB6 is non-object oriented principle based language.


Whereas, VB.NET , from a coding style perspective looks
similar to old VB6, but, has more power to it, just because it
sits on the .Net platform.

 Data Handling in VB6 is DAO protocol, then RDO, followed


by ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) while VB.Nert Data is
handled using ADO.net

 The greatest change in VB6 and VB.NET is of runtime


environment. VB6 used the VB-Runtime while VB.NET
uses the .Net Common Language Runtime (.Net CLR). The
CLR is much better designed and implemented than VB-
Runtime. The CLR uses better code translation through Just
in Time compiler while VB-Runtime interprets the code. The
CLR Garbage Collector is also more efficient than VB6 one
as it may detect cyclic references too.

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