Visual Studio is an IDE, whereas DotNet is a framework. A Framework is a set of usable components which can be used to develop some application, hence Visual Studio is a development environment for DotNet based applications.
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Visual Basic
(VB) is a third-generation event-driven programming language and associated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft
for its COM programming model.[1] Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development
(RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using DAO, RDO, or ADO, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects. Scripting languages such as VBA and VBScript are syntactically similar to Visual Basic, but perform differently.
A programmer can put together an application using the components provided with Visual Basic itself. Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function declarations.
The final release was version 6 in 1998. Microsoft's extended support ended in February 2008 and the designated successor was Visual Basic .NET.
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is an object-oriented computer language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) implemented on the Microsoft .NET framework. Its introduction has been controversial, as significant changes were made that broke backward compatibility with older versions and caused a rift within the developer community.
Visual Studio .Net is the programming tool used to create .Net applications. When you create a .Net application, you can do it in a number of different programming languages, one of which is Visual Basic .Net.
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The Visual Studio Express editions are free versions of software that are released with the intent of teaching people that would like to learn to use Microsoft-based programming languages. Visual Basic is one of the core languages you can learn using the Express 2008 suite, along with C++, C#, Microsoft SQL Lite, and the Web Developer (ASP) versions. Downloading Visual Basic Express 2008 allows you to learn Visual Basic and compile programs for demonstration/testing purposes only. You must upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 to legally distribute programs you have created in Visual Basic Express 2008. The projects for both programs are compatible with each other, so you can upgrade at any time without losing your work.
HTML is a client-side language that is developed and outputted like a "website" by a browser - not a server. It consists of tags to create elements and objects. ASP is a server-side language that outputs other languages (or just pure text) dynamicly - depending on how functions and queries turn out, how variables are compared to one another, and etc.
Default scripting language in ASP is VB Script
ASP.Net and Java do not have any real comparison. Java is a computer language, where as ASP.Net is a web technology for generating web content. You could use any CLR (Common Language Runtime) targeted language to create an ASP.Net website, such as VB.Net, C#, or IronPython.