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YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

As a VB'er, I am SO happy that the name of Visual Basic (of which I am an MVP for) has changed from Visual Basic .NET to Visual Basic 8.0. This info comes according to Robert Green's Visual Basic Blog and Panopticon Central. I have posted about this in the past here and here.

For me, as a writer, it was ALWAYS very annoying to write “Visual Basic .NET” over and over again. Then ... was it “VB .NET” or “VB.NET” ... geez. I am going to love writing “Visual Basic” or just “VB”. How wonderful! For me, names mean a lot. Visual Basic now refers to the wonderful language that it is today for building everything from enterprise applications to basic ASP.NET pages - but at the same time, there is the connection to the powerful history of the language. GO VB!

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# Take Outs for 17 March 2004

left by Enjoy Every Sandwich at 3/17/2004 8:03 PM Gravatar
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# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by Richard Tallent at 3/17/2004 11:11 PM Gravatar
I understand the need to "de-.NET" everything, I'm definitely not keen on this particular change. The term "Visual Basic" has a lot of bad baggage that shouldn't be thrust upon .NET developers and code. More:

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# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by College Student Software Develop at 7/24/2004 1:40 PM Gravatar
Even the abbreviation VB8 is easier to type than VB.NET.

# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by SiGiD at 10/11/2005 11:05 AM Gravatar
- The only reason that VB.NET was called "Visual Basic" is that Microsoft has a copyright on the product name. They are entitled to call anything they want - even a new model car - "Visual Basic" should they so choose.
- However, calling it VB, whether you mean .NET or "VB8", doesn't make it that. Pre .NET, VB was the premier RAD tool available; starting with .NET, it is simply another wrapper for the code-bloated OOP junk that C programmers have had to deal with for a long time.

# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by josephine at 5/31/2007 2:41 AM Gravatar
how sad.. complaining over three letters :(

# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by jason marsh at 5/1/2009 8:19 AM Gravatar
you lot need to get a life.

# re: YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

left by Phetsomphone at 11/16/2009 8:59 PM Gravatar
I want to learn Visual Studio 8.0
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