The Evolution of Visual Basic

Visual Basic 1 – Visual Basic 3:

• Made Windows programming accessible
• Helped make Windows the premier platform in the world

Visual Basic 4 – Visual Basic 6:

• Made targeting COM and OLE approachable for most developers

Visual Basic 7 – Visual Basic 9:

• Bringing the "ease of use" to the .NET platform
• Helped establish the CLR as the premier managed runtime in the world

Visual Basic 10:

• Continuing this trend to make it easy to use and leverage the platform

Download VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit Beta 2

 

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. 

 This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

Download VS2010TrainingKitSetup.exe