With the release of the Microsoft .NET platform comes a new version of Visual Basic that is dramatically unlike preceding versions. Along with many feature enhancements (like support for inheritance), VB.NET has been streamlined and modified to work with the .NET Framework. So extensive are the changes that some VB programmers have argued that VB.NET is an entirely new language. And in VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, you\'ll find complete documentation for the VB.NET language, including all of its new language elements. The core of the book consists of an. alphabetical reference to VB.NET statements, procedures, functions, and objects.