VB based on RAD tool which is much user friendly for any kind of user. It provides with many shortcuts and much more attractive features that makes it to be popular among users.
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language.
Visual Basic .NET is the next generation of the visual basic language, it is a fast and easy way to create .Net based applications including XML web services and web applications.
It has many new improved features that make it a powerful object oriented programming language including abstraction,overloading,inheritance and interfaces.