VB & VS Difference?

[iMav]

Guys I am not into programming and have no clue what-so-ever about any of this. SO can someone explain to me what's the difference between Visual Basic; Visual Studio & Visual Basic .NET (VB.Net).

Thank you.

 

[gxsaurav]

Visual basic : Old Microsoft programming language using which you can make applications by even drag & drop & easier coding. Visual aspect makes the design of app easy. In uses the now legacy Winforms UI Components

Visual Studio : The IDE on which you can make applications using Microsoft Development tools & languages such as Visual C++ * Visual basic. You code or design on this.

Visual basic.net : Managed code version of Visual basic, it's not much different from Visual Basic, just that now the code is managed & a MSIL file is made during compilation not the machine code specific application exe.

 

[iMav]

So what's the difference?

And also, where does .Net fit in?

 

[QwertyManiac]

.Net is the framework, Visual Basic is the language, Visual Studio is the tool.

 

[iMav]

So you use the tool to write the language and the framework makes sure it behaves as the program is intended to?

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

Yep, thats right. VS is the developing tool, and the the coding is done in VB, and the .net is the runtime needed for the program to run in all comps.

 

[QwertyManiac]

The framework makes your task easier by providing a repository/structure of repeatedly used logical patterns.

 

[Cool Joe]

Visual Studio also contains other tools like Visual C++, Visual SourceSafe etc.