Object is the class from which every other class or object in .Net derives from. This is designed in this way to bring out the pure object oriented functionality and thus make .net a pure object oriented technology It's only because of this design that even you customs classes is having methods like GetHashCode(), ToString(), Equals(), ReferenceEquals() etc which are originaly methods defined in object class and got inherited to your type because of this OO Design
Visual Basic 2005 is actually a version of VB.NET (v8.0). The latest version (9.0) is Visual Basic 2008.
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.NET Framework 4.0 supports 96 languages....
The .NET framework can only be used to write Windows programs using C#, F# and Visual Basic, whereas Java can be used to write programs for any supported platform.
I think this is also applicable to Microsoft Access: In Visual Basic version 4.0, the exclamation mark (!) syntax is for collection lookup, and the dot (.) syntax is for properties and methods. However, a control can be accessed as a property, and Visual Basic has a Controls collection on a form. Because the Controls collection is the default property of a form, you can access a control from a Form using by using the exclamation mark (!) syntax. (source:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129287)
a point
dot in dot net is basically a semantic for "." (period symbol) its probably symbolizes dot com applications
A point object is refers to a tiny object which is calculated or counted as dot object to simplyfy the calculations...
What does it mean if your born with a dot in the middle or your eyebrows
A line.
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