Chapter 2 Your First VB.NET(2)

Chapter 2 Your First VB.NET(2)

re 2.3

The New Project dialog box.

If you examine the Visual Basic project types, you’ll see that many of them are dif-ferent

from what you are used to with VB6. Some of the major project types are

• Windows Application—This is a standard executable, in VB6 terminology. It is

the way to create applications with a Windows interface, using forms and con-trols.

This is as close to “your father’s VB” as you’ll get in VB.NET.

• Class Library—This project type allows you to create classes that will be used

in other applications. Think of it as similar to the COM components that you

have been building, which VB6 called the ActiveX DLL and ActiveX EXE pro-ject

types.

• Windows Control Library—This project type is for creating what used to be

called ActiveX controls. This type allows you to create new controls to be used