THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY March 3, 2004 Visual Basic .NET
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VB.NET is the first fully object-oriented programming (OOP) version of Visual Basic, and as such, supports OOP concepts such as abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and aggregation. _________________________ RELATED TERMS: Visual Basic http://searchvb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci213309,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 .NET http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci342248,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 Web services http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci750567,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 object-oriented programming http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci212681,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 abstraction http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci343038,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 inheritance http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212351,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 polymorphism http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212803,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: SearchVB.com offers a selection of links about .NET and Internet. http://searchvb.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid8_tax4d9,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 Dan Clark explains the evolution of Visual Basic in the first chapter of his book, "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET." http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/90/1590590155-537.pdf ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: SAP, COCA-COLA PACT KEEPS DATA IN PERFECT HARMONY Calling it one of the most significant technology projects in the consumer space, SAP's logistics expert Franz Joseph Schoppengerd asserts that a new partnership with Coca-Cola could change the way the food and beverage industry does business. http://searchsap.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid21_gci953179,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 SIEBEL PERFORMS MIDMARKET MAKEOVER The enterprise CRM leader has changed the pricing and packaging of its midmarket software in hopes of drawing new attention. http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci953329,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 HEEDING THE WAKEUP CALL There's plenty of new malware--some of it nasty--circulating in the wild. But thus far U.S. enterprises have been relatively unscathed. http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci953202,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com?track=NL-34&ad=477601 ______________________ SECRET WORD-OF-THE-DAY | What is IT? Very nearly a hundred: this is a number used to describe high availability in a computer system. Do you think you know the Secret Word? Click to see if you're right! http://searchcio.techtarget.com/gDefinition/0,294236,sid19_gci761286,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 ______________________ QUICK POLL | Do not spam list Would a registry of e-mail addresses, similar to the "do not call" list, be an effective way to reduce spam? http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/news/0,289141,sid11,00.html?track=NL-34&ad=477601 ______________________ FAST REFERENCE | How many bytes for... (NEW!) How many bytes would it take to store all the words ever spoken by human beings? 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