The Language-Independence of DotNet has done what it should, but has Platform-Independence done its part yet?
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Well, in my opinion, we had/have platform independence with Java as well as many older and newer technologies designed for the Internet and Intranet environments.  While platform independence is a boon to the networked world and not a bad thing elsewhere, it is not a gut wrenching requirement for many applications on many platforms.  I think that part of the trouble lies simply with the IT community's unwillingness to concede that it is nice where you can get it, but won't stop computers in other non-networked environments (embedded platforms, stand alone workstations, point of sale terminals and high end mainframes or super computers, etc.) from running applications made with less portable languages and compilers.  In other words, people tend to use what they want in certain platforms and as long as it works it stays that way.  So, I'd say it has done as much as it has been called to do and will do more when it is called to do that.
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There's essentially no difference ... check out the Microsoft MSDN info ...
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It's not at all hard. It has a very low entry level with intellisense and wizards and all that stuff. Those features are for any and all languages, but you should find VB.NET to be the easiest among them.\nPlease note ADO.NET is not a language but one of the features of the .NET Framework Class Library.
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I am currently running .NET 2003 and 6.0 and am not experiencing any problems.
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in it's simplicity the .net framework takes the code you write and compiles it to an intermidiate language.  The .net framework can then take this code and convert it to run on any system (as long as the framework is installed)  This gives the advantage of portability.
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"the difference is obvious" as quoted from microsoft itself.\n\nVisual Basic .NET is in no way a sucessor of Visual Basic 6, its a completely new language that is named by Microsoft as Visual Basic, which is completely stupid as these makes confusion. (This is actually true, since VB.NET is not build on top of VB6, it's almost made from scratch)\n\nVB.NET is actually out of the road of Visual Basic, it doesn't have, in any way, Visual Basic essences. If you want to know, Visual Basic .NET is created by some stupid C (or C++, or C#)developers, not VB developers, stupidly interesting isn't it?\n\nAnd some people have also been saying that Visual Basic .NET is C# rebranded to get VB popularity over C\n\nVB.NET, IMO, should be put down, and VB7 (which is currently not available), should be put as the succesor of VB. VB7 would in my imagination, support .NET framework, but have the same concept to VB6
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.NET is a framework that Microsoft has developed for bringing out a revolution in the way people program.\nIt is very Programmer friendly with its IDE.\nHowever the biggest prob is it does not work on Linux..\nJava however (developed by Sun Microsystems) is platform independent in true sense!Java's this feature as well because of its robustness has made it the most popular programing language.\nto know more check out \nhttp://www.microsoft.com\nhttp://www.sun.com
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.NET due to its future plateform independence and low size of executable or dll
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It has emerged in the past few days that the Microsoft update site runs on Linux servers! Totally true. There have been a few red faces - MS is basically admitting that Linux server technology is better than their own.\n\nDC :)
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1.1 is the latest framework... it should start working automatically, i mean it's not an application in itself, but a software that supports the development of other software....otherwise you would have gotten some sort of error message.
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The .NET "framework" of libraries (DLLs) created by Microsoft is a software development "platform" focused on rapid application development, platform independence and network transparency. .NET is Microsoft's strategic initiative for server and desktop development for the next decade.\nIt consists of three main parts: the Common Language Runtime, the Framework classes, and ASP.NET. GotDotNet. For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.Net
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VB .Net is going ot be here. It has a very nice future.
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Net framework 2 is out now so install that instead. Its not that important but if you want to run certain apps it is nessasary but if you are running without it at the moment obviously everything you use dosent need it.
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Have you tried cdnet>
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Dear\n If you have worked  with Dcom. If you know about Ado object. there was a problem with them (versions problem) called DLL hell . they have removed it in ADO.net. they provide disconnected data set . More faster development   if a problem takes 7 days in java to fix you can do it in one day with dot net . And there are alto  of issues like this .
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you question is not clear.\nVB.Net is a language and what do you mean by support?\n\nall other .net compatible languages (c#, j#, delphi, etc.,) can use components developed in vb.net\nFor non-.net languages, they can use vb.net components if hey support COM.\n\nhope that helps\n\ncheers
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Well these days, anything .NET -> VB.NET, C#, J#\nJava is still popular, rising is Python