We also discuss several technologies that support LINQ, including type
inference, anonymous types, extension methods, and Lambda expressions.
nINTRODUCTION xix
VB 2008 Overview
This book is for experienced object-oriented developers. In this overview, we will take a look
at some of the major language differences between Visual Basic 2008 (VB 2008), C# 3.0, and
Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6). Functionally, VB 2008 and C# 3.0 are nearly identical, and you can use
either language to create stable, high-performance applications in the .NET environment.
You??™ll see the biggest differences in the syntax, which is completely different between the two
languages. VB 2008 and VB6 are also vastly different from each other, and we will look at some of
the overreaching differences between the two languages. Next, we will review a simple VB 2008
program to get an idea of the programmatic structure in .NET 3.5 and wrap up with a summary
of what??™s new for current VB programmers in this latest and greatest version, VB 2008.
Differences Between VB 2008, C# 3.0, and VB6
This new version of VB has been specifically designed to target the new programming model
provided by .NET 3.5. Both C# 3.0 and VB 2008 are designed to write programs that work with the
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