Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008
Chapter One
Getting Started with
Visual Basic 2008
I'm assuming that you have installed one of the several versions of Visual Studio 2008. For this
book, I used the Professional Edition of Visual Studio, but just about everything discussed in
this book applies to the Standard Edition as well. Some of the features of the Professional Edition
that are not supported by the Standard Edition concern database tools, which are discussed in
Chapters 21 through 24 of this book.
You may have even already explored the new environment on your own, but this book starts
with an overview of Visual Studio and its basic tools. It doesn't even require any knowledge of
VB 6, just some familiarity with programming at large. As you already know, Visual Basic 2008
is just one of the languages you can use to build applications with Visual Studio 2008. I happen
to be convinced that it is also the simplest, most convenient language, but this isn't really the
issue; I'm assuming you have your reasons to code in VB, or else you wouldn't be reading this
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