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.NET and Visual Basic

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.NET and Visual Basic

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- [Narrator] There's one more important thing to understand, .NET. It's the framework that powers Visual Basic, providing the tools, libraries, and runtime environment that make it possible to create everything from desktop apps to web services. Understanding .NET is essential to take full advantage of what Visual Basic has to offer. To be clear, a Visual Basic application is a .NET application. For a better understanding of .NET, it's important to first explore the concept of a framework. Simply put, a framework is a development platform that provides a foundation for building applications. When we write code that leverages a framework, we gain access to a wide range of built-in services and tools to simplify and enhance the development process. These services can include pre-written libraries, runtime environments, and features like memory management, security and error handling. This allows us to focus on writing our application's core functionality rather than reinventing the…

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