Visual Basic Welcome to the exciting, new capabilities of Visual Basic. Visual Basic 2008 incorporates many of the most requested ...

 Visual Basic
Welcome to the exciting, new capabilities of Visual Basic.  Visual Basic 2008 incorporates many of the most requested features, making this the most productive tool for creating high-performance applications for Windows and the Web.  A complete list of features is too long to include here, but some of the highlights are: 
 
Distributed Applications   Develop distributed applications as easily as developing a simple, standalone application thanks to features such as Web Forms, XML Web services, and DataSets. 
XML Web services   Build stateless, scalable server components that allow clients to communicate with the server using standard HTTP and XML. Publish the methods and events associated with your application to the Web where they can be called dynamically from any client application. 
DataSets   Send data between client and server with DataSets, snapshots of data that are disconnected from the database and passed via  XML over HTTP. 
Web Forms   Build Web applications that can target any browser on any platform. Web Forms combine the ease and power of Visual Basic with the broad reach of Web-based HTML and ASP applications. 
Windows Forms   Create rich Windows client applications that can connect to XML Web services using the new Services Framework. 
Integrated Development   Develop and debug applications that take advantage of multiple development languages in the shared Visual Studio environment. 
Inheritance   Create base objects and inherit the code, saving valuable development time.