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What is the difference between Windows API in Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET?

April 26, 2017API difference visual basic Windows

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What is the difference between Windows API in Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET?

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The Windows API is the foundation that every Windows application is built on. Visual Basic, through the language and forms package, abstracts the Windows API to a set of easy-to-use statements, components, and controls. VB supports directly calling Windows API functions, enabling you to add capabilities to your application that cannot be implemented by the Visual Basic runtime. Visual Basic .NET moves forward with this capability by enabling you to declare and call Windows API functions in the same way as before. Furthermore, access to many of these APIs has been exposed through the more comprehensive .NET Framework class library.