Is Microsoft visual studio.NET able to compile visual basic programs?

Question

I want to create some windows VB apps that control parallel port of my laptop for sending data to the outside world, e.g. to LCD or 8051, and also reading from ADC for data ecquisition etc. can i do it with vstudio.net or i have to dwnload microsoft visual basic compiler?

All I want to know is that what in particular .NET stands for? is it meant to develop apps specifically for the web? I know that there is support for writing VB programs in VS.NET but are they different from those compiled using only Microsoft Visual Basic ?

KINDLY HELP!

Answer 1

.NEt is the framework upon, which all the other programming languages work, like VB.Net, ASP.Net etc., the equvalent of VB will be VB.net, if you are using Visual Studio (2003/05/08).

Yes the program written in VB.NEt will be different from VB.

Answer 2

You can get the express edition for Visual Basic for free from their site but I guess you know that. And whether or not you can use visual basic depends on the version of Visual Studio that you have. The .Net stands for the .Net Framework that languages like c# and visual basic are based on, it can be used for web applications but not necessarily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework

Answer 3

VB is easy see the Microsoft website for the Studio Express version of software. They are free and the Studio Express home page has links to many excellent tutorials by MS

Answer 4

See, i guess there is one namespace called microsoft.visual something like that which when imported helps you run all the vb6 programs i guess...