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Visual Fred
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n. Pejorative hackerism for VB.NET (Visual Basic for the. NET framework).
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VB.NET has been marketed by Microsoft as an updated version of the previous
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Visual Basic on its. NET framework, but VB.NET is really just C# with a
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slightly different syntax and fewer libraries. Migrating existing code from
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Visual Basic to VB.NET is generally impractical because VB.NET has a large
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number of unnecessary incompatibilities with Visual Basic. Since VB.NET has
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essentially nothing to do with Visual Basic, a well-known ex-Microserf
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suggested that VB.NET should have a completely different name Visual Fred.
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This rapidly caught on.
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