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While the Windows applications created in Visual Studio.NET look very similar to those created using earlier versions of Visual Studio, a great deal has changed behind the scenes. The main benefit that Visual Studio.NET brings to forms-based applications is the equal footing that developers are put on regardless of the language being used. The underlying classes used are now the same whether one is developing inVB.NET, C#, C++.NET, or any other.NET language. This is a huge step forward from Visual Studio 6, where Visual Basic was dominant in many market sectors in comparison to Visual C++, and developers were faced with many intricacies involved in creating rich applications using Visual C++.
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© 2004 Bill Sempf, Donald Xie, James Greenwood, Rob Harrop, Colt Kwong, Jan Machacek, Brian Bischof, Jon Reid, and Kunal Cheda
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Sempf, B. et al. (2004). Building Windows Applications. In: Pro Visual Studio.NET. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0749-8_2
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