Visual Studio .NET introduced a unified development environment for all the types of applications you can build. Visual Studio and the .NET Framework are just as powerful for creating other types of applications, including Windows and Web applications.
Visual Studio has a long history of providing a large library of prebuilt controls that allow developers to quickly create user interfaces for Microsoft Windows applications. Windows application development has been a hallmark of Visual Basic since its introduction. From the following chapters you can learn some sample VB.NET programs that you can easily coding in Visual Studio .NET.