Microsoft Visual Basic .Net 2008 is a language derived from BASIC that is used for robust and sophisticated programming of GUI applications. VB.Net is easy to learn and programming is also simple because of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Microsoft Visual Basic also supports the Objects and Classes the basis of OOPS concept. Integration with databases is done effectively using the Data Access Objects (DAO), Remote Data Objects (RDO), and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).