Vb Vs Vb Net. It is the successor of vb6. C and vb net are syntactically very different languages with very different histories.
So it is not actively maintained. A vb net uses the common language runtime clr component of net framework at runtime. Vb is the predecessor of vb net and was not an object oriented language.
Vb net stands for visual basic network enabled technology.
The byval vb net default by the way also prevents changes to parameter variables in procedures from being unintentionally propagated back into the calling code a key part of good oop programming. Visual basic net requires a byval or byref specification for parameters. It is a compiled language. An empty applicationevents vb file to contain these events is created by the winforms template in net 5 while in net framework the file is not created until the developer clicks the view application events button.