Visual Basic 2005 training - what's new for Visual Basic 2005

This is the latest incarnation of Visual Basic, incorporating lots of extra controls and features, such as a new DataGridView control, easier data binding and code snippets which you can copy and edit. Some changes are shown below - see also ASP.NET 2.0 changes or Visual Studio 2005 changes. Specific changes include:

Change	Details
Code snippets	There are some 300 code snippets available for you to paste in and edit - an excellent idea, which Wise Owl predict we will see a lot more of in the future.
DataGridViews	These updated DataGrid controls make everything easier, but especially binding and using the CurrencyManager (which was so complicated in VB.NET).
BackgroundWorker	A new background worker tool allows you to manage time-intensive background tasks more simply.
Error list window	This window now shows errors in an easy to use way, and is sortable
Better toolbars	The toolbars in VB.NET were both too simple (they were not powerful enough) and too complicated (assigning an image to a tool was ridiculous). This has been sorted by creating ToolStripContainers, which contain ToolStrips.
Better form layout	Snaplines now allow you to line controls up easily.
New MY concept	You can now get at everything to do with your computer simply, using MY (the root of this is shown below). You can use this to change display settings, get at the files on your computer, write to your application log file, and much more.

You can view a full list of changes in recent versions of Visual Basic by returning to our main Visual Basic version history page.